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Marcel Kocx Elroy Keuris

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First presentation for the workshop British and American Culture

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Marcel KocxElroy Keuris

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• The most used: RUN!• Wasn’t it “set”?• 1928• Verb form• 645 meanings -> New record!

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Run… on what? “Run for… office” “Set” is England, old and fusty. “Run” is

America, new and cool.

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Scrid: how Google changes American dialect Influence of farmers Dialect: go!

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They; modern English Refer to… me?

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Etiquette in e-mail Trying to attract attention Other ways To much Normal

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Example President’s Day A Single president Mistakes with it’s and its Apostrophe disappears

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English not good enough Reccomendation by linguist No precedent Struck from ballat Lega; battle continues

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