[Dx-qsl] Fwd: postal increase

Fri Feb 4 12:29:08 EST 2011

I wonder what Y'all make of Y'all. Of course, the plural of y'all is "all y'all" (not to be confused with youse guys). ;-)
73 de steve, kz2i
(a Yankee stuck in Dixie)
On Feb 4, 2011, at 9:09, "Peter Dougherty" <w2irt at verizon.net> wrote:
> Probably the same reason we drop the "u" in colour, flavour, odour, etc and
> also why a headline might read "a drug arrest" rather than "a drugs arrest."
> - And for the same reason that in the previous sentence, we use double
> quotes rather than single and put the punctuation inside the quote marks. I
> would have to say it's just the way the language evolved over the last
> 150-200 years and that we likely dropped those extra letters as a form of
> brevity. My question along those lines would be why you brits name a car's
> luggage space after a piece of winter footwear <grin>? In reading a good
> degree of news from various U.K. sites, the one thing that really distracts
> me is the British use of the letter s where we use a z. Privatise, stylize,
> etc.
>>> ------
>> - pjd
>> -----Original Message-----
> From: dx-qsl-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:dx-qsl-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
> On Behalf Of Tom GM4FDM
> Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 6:24 AM
> To: dx-qsl at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] Fwd: postal increase
>> This always bugs me - the US usage of the word MATH.
>> [pjd] <snip>
>> Why to US people use the word MATH? I am not being derogatory, just
> interested....
>>> Tom
> GM4FDM
>>>> On 03/02/2011 23:47, Kt4zb at aol.com wrote:
>> Hi - Latest I have from Postal Service is current US Foreign will stay at
>> 98 cents. Canada will go to 80 cents, US domestic will stay 44 cents.
>> Postcards will go up; but, I don't know the price.
>>>> Best to all - Jere, KT4ZB
>>>>>> In a message dated 2/3/2011 6:34:57 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>> mgreen at erols.com writes:
>>>> Nao,
>> Air mail today from the USA to JA for basic letter is 98 cents. If my
>> math is correct, the increase on April 17 2011 should go to about 1ドル.00.
>> Just an estimate based on the information below. (Math was not my
> thing.)
>> 73, Murray, K3BEQ
>> =========================
>>>> JA1HGY,Nao Mashita wrote:
>>> <dx-qsl at mailman.qth.net>
>>>>>> Pse tell me,
>>> New Prices from US to JA via air mail?
>>>>>> de Nao, JA1HGY
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The United States Postal Service announced their intention to increase
>>>> postage on non-competitive products an average of 1.741%, effective
>>>> April 17, 2011
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