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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Geoff Mayo: [QB] "Taking the Concorde" rather than "taking Concorde" was a big annoyance for the bigwigs at BA for some reason - an insult perhaps?! Queuing is actually more correct (first-in, first-served) than a line which infers no ordering. It's one of the few things in computer programming where we don't have an Americanism (color/colour, initialization/initialisation etc) but have an English Queue. Can't say I've ever thought that "in University" is a problem! Though "at University" is probably more common. Along the same lines as "in jail" or "in school" - or, as you say, "in college"! I think saying "in *the* hospital" you're implying a specific named hospital rather than conveying a general indication of a type of place. Something some Americans do which I find hard to read is saying "Fred and Jack and Jill and Bob went to the moon" instead of "Fred, Jack, Jill, and Bob went to the moon". Use of the final comma is another debate in itself. Language is a funny thing. But apostrophe abu'se is unforgivable! [/QB][/QUOTE]
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