Special Requests (was Vote for the Best Scottish Dance Band)

Priscilla M. Burrage

Message 35561 · 15 Jun 2003 23:18:02 · Fixed-width font · Whole thread

On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Jim Healy wrote:

> My Concise Oxford Dictionary is extremely concise with a one word entry
> "Pleased". Your guess was therefore correct. Even after years of working
> with many North Americans, I am still sometimes amazed
> at our ability to confuse each other.

And in my American dictionary "pleased" is also given as the first
meaning, but the second meaning is disgruntled, displeased, unhappy.
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