Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1648 invoked from network); 3 May 2001 16:19:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO murphys-inbound.servers.plus.net) (212.159.14.225) by excalibur.plus.net with SMTP; 3 May 2001 16:19:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 10809 invoked from network); 3 May 2001 16:19:24 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Received: from unknown (HELO post.thorcom.com) (212.172.148.70) by murphys with SMTP; 3 May 2001 16:19:24 -0000 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 3.16 #2) id 14vLgY-00054e-00 for rsgb_lf_group-outgoing@blacksheep.org; Thu, 03 May 2001 17:10:34 +0100 Received: from mail.cc.kuleuven.ac.be ([134.58.10.6]) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #2) id 14vLgU-00054Z-00 for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Thu, 03 May 2001 17:10:30 +0100 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Received: from LCBD15.fys.kuleuven.ac.be (LCBD15.fys.kuleuven.ac.be [134.58.80.15]) by mail.cc.kuleuven.ac.be (8.9.3/8.9.0) with SMTP id SAA917844 for ; Thu, 3 May 2001 18:10:00 +0200 Message-ID: <3.0.1.16.20010503171109.3f3f6ae4@mail.cc.kuleuven.ac.be> X-Sender: pb623250@mail.cc.kuleuven.ac.be X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (16) Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 17:11:09 To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org From: "Rik Strobbe" Subject: Re: LF: Off-topic: For non-UK readers In-reply-to: <3AF17CB8.29078.15F1913@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org X-Listname: rsgb_lf_group Sender: At 15:43 3/05/01 +0100, you wrote: >With apologies to UK readers, I am using this forum to survey non-UK >amateurs about the term "on a shoestring" which the RSGB may be using in >the title of a future project. Hi Mike, I do understand the term, but at the time I was in highschool we still learned 'old fashioned' British English. We even got a 'black list' of wrong spelled words (such as 'color' and 'favorite', had to be 'colour' and 'favourite'). Sometimes we had to use a complete different word (eg. 'apartment' was wrong, it had to be 'flat'). One thing I remind is that, a few weeks after I got my ham licence, I was told that even 'antenna' was not correct, it had to be 'aerial' ... 73, Rik ON7YD