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Re: Rule, Britannia!

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Lee

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Date Posted: 08:21:34 30/08/2005
In reply to: Florence Avenue 's message, "Re: Rule, Britannia!" on 02:18:21 30/08/2005

I'm just impressed that someone complaining about "illiterate substitutions[s]" should need three goes at spelling Britannia!

I think the point that Andrew is trying to make is that in some people's opinion /will/ implies choice whereas /shall/ relates to a mandatory obligation. Modern usage, however, is such that /will/ and /shall/ are, in general, interchangable.

Actually, both /will/ and /shall/ are correct in Rule, Britannia!; iirc, one is used in John Thompson's original poem and the other in the original libretto for /Alfred/

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Subject	Author	Date
Re: Rule, Britannia!	Andrew Lowe-Watson	08:47:13 30/08/2005