Re: [xml-dev] So off-topic it may be too weird even for XML-DEV ...

[Francis Norton <francis@redrice.com>]

Hi John,

John Cowan wrote:

>and my
>second floor is a Brit's first floor (still?), 
>
Still, but our friends in the USA will see reason eventually.

>and even the O.E.D. (also
>called the N.E.D.) despairs of distinguishing between beer, properly
>so called, and ale, properly so called.
>
Time for an empirical investigation...

Francis.