03-August-2005, 10:19 PM
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Originally posted by Nereid@Aug 4 2005, 03:18 AM
You say mothers superior, I say mother superiors (and attorney generals).
One more example of folk in the US being more conservative than those from 'the mother country' (at least wrt language)? 
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Does this mean that you reside in the land of mother tongues? (or mother's tongue?) and you would say 'order of magnitudes'?
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