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Just so I can have another rant. She had every right to be stunned. As far as I am concerned the extra "and" is correct English and is the correct form. If the US really speaks "English", then what was on the first cheque (that's cheque not check) was perfectly valid. If however the US would like to be different once again and call their language "American" then that's fine. Change the rules for all I care.

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So you don't recognize that different dialects of the same language can be spoken within a single country and still be called the same language, or you're pretending this is different because it's not all within one set of boundaries?