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Thread #124681 Message #2765356
Posted By: Uncle_DaveO
13-Nov-09 - 12:10 PM
Thread Name: BS: American English usages taking over Brit
Subject: RE: BS: American English usages taking over Brit
MtheGM, I just have a sneaking suspicion that the use of "caskets" for the corpse-burial container may be one of those many American survivals of older British usages, rather than Americanisms, whether mortician or otherwise.