Subject: Re: oops<br/>
Date: Aug 11, 2001 @ 21:45<br/>
Author: Grant Hutchison (&quot;Grant Hutchison&quot; &lt;granthutchison@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1372340723"><blockquote><span title="ireply">&gt; I&#39;m not ticked off in the least.  I&#39;m not even sure what topic I <br/>
&gt; would be ticked off about.<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Two nations divided by a single language! <br/>
British usage, as in &quot;I ticked him off&quot; implies I have stood over you <br/>
and wagged a finger and told you you&#39;re a bad person for not <br/>
celebrating the millennium at the start of 2000. (You might of course <br/>
be entitled to become (US) ticked off in response.) <br/>
You&#39;re right about my guilty conscience, though - I felt I hadn&#39;t <br/>
been clear enough in my first off-the-cuff millennium remarks, so I <br/>
was feeling the need to apologise for the apparent ticking-off I had <br/>
delivered to all 2001-celebrants. <br/>
But my guess now is that you didn&#39;t feel ticked off in either sense. <br/>
Which is good.<br/>
<br/>
Grant</div>