On Sun, 08 May 2005 14:06:12 GMT, "Fleetie"
wrote:

I don't think it is bad spelling, it's just that there are very few Americans who seem to know the difference between YOUR and
YOU'RE.

There are very (VERY) few English who know the difference.

I was looking round LiveJournal last night, and there was a friend of a
friend, an Indian guy, living in India. In his profile, he used
the word "paucity". How many English even know that word?

There's a paucity of them......

I was on holiday in Goa last year, and one of the most fascinating
items was reading the local English-language newpaper. The English was
grammatically perfect, but wonderfully polysallbic and straight out of
the last days of the Raj. It was a bit like picking up a London Times
from 1934!
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