No pinstripes in the country.

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Webster was a early advocate of american identity through devises such as an 'american' spelling protocol, coffee instead of tea as national drink  and confusing no few number of whips and horses as to which side of the road to be on.
Etymology and linguistics recognises a PRESCRIPTIVE grammar and a DESCRIPTIVE grammar.
I believe, in spite of your limitations you understood my meaning, and, like it's cranial counterpart being of great dimension and little content except super heated air.

FNB- So english dress code is like a japanese haiku that gives great expression in a formal code?
I have no wish to 'dress brit'  although elements are very appealing. My firearms stay secured and 6 years was enough of wearing issue uniform. The whole 'Trad' shtick seems a desperate attempt at connection, like buying faux antique furniture and having 300 year old oaks transplanted in front of the newly built trophy mansion still offgassing formaldahyde from the belgian made persian carpets.
I enjoyed Foyle's War and gained a likening for his lapels. Mad Men has nice watches ( even if they don't run from wardrobe.) There is  a maddening void in wardrobe savvy today. Igents are like early paleontologists putting mismatched bones together and coming up with monsters. As G.K. Chesterton said " it is one thing to believe in dragons, a creature which doesn't exist, yet we want to. It is quite another to believe in a rhinoceros,  which does but looks like it shouldn't" I probably  misquoted his exact lines, but that's where I am.

Reg- I can call you Reg, or is it Reginald when the Home Office calls for advise and advice? English is the linqua francais of the modern world, and that aint french for oral sex. As such, it has evolved into a dizzying array of patois far beyond the correspondence WE- being you and Maggie Thatcher must intimitely exchange in a form so pure even the Queen's English is suspect.
Should you ever venture debate in the real world beyond the safe anonymity of your computer it will be rue Brittania as some cockney or yorkshire farmer looks at you with all the native disgust of Onslow at Hyacinth Bucket and goes " Oh Nice."

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Cheers Formby! Grammatic errors and spelling can be corrected unlike other defects.
Onslow is The MAN, his native intelligence an inspiration.
Anymore beer?

I type fast. As I said to Formby in thanks, spelling can be corrected. For that matter; so can cleft pallets, broken zippers, overgrown rosebushes and batteries installed in torches backwards.
Then there is you.
Ends this british Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum episode as american Bugs Bunny Leaning hand on Yosemite Sam's head while he swings wildly.
"What a maroon."