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From: mkinyon@peabody.iusb.indiana.edu (Michael Kinyon)
Subject: Re: British v. American Vocabulary
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In article <19950918.102758.09@arnod.arnod.demon.co.uk>,
Julian Arnold <jools@arnod.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>This seems to be the right place to ask. 8)
>
>Is `fortnight' (meaning two weeks) a British-only word?  I use it, and
>everyone else here uses it, but I've never heard it used by an American.

Nonsense.  Of course we use it.  We use it in the natural unit of
velocity:   furlongs / fortnight.

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