At 07:19:35 on Thu, 3 Jul 2008, Woody Wordpecker <exw6sxq@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote in <77np649ihudqeork0ljd75cnq8b7embqa3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>It also needs to be said that we wouldn't use "alternate"
>for "alternative" in all cases. For example, commonly heard
>phrases are "alternative medicine" and "alternative
>lifestyle". I wouldn't expect to hear an American
>substitute "alternate" in those phrases.
And yet, when The Monkees were told that they could not call their
latest record "Randy Scouse Git", it became "Alternate Title".
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