Re: What is the language "British"?

Chris Mohler wrote:
How about "connexion"? That valid o'er the pond?

Anne Wilson wrote:
No, that would be 'connection'.

Personally, I'd call "connexion" "historical usage", but valid (e.g.
"the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion"). I'd lump it together with
"shew", which seems to have been a valid alternative until the twentieth
century.

James.

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