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Subject:RE: who vs that (called vs named) From:"Larry Kunz" <larry_kunz -at- symantec -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:54:58 -0500
> "The CEO was called John Smith."
This might be a question of British English vs. U.S. English. In British
English the "called" phraseology is common -- for example "I have a
friend called Harry Potter."
OTOH a U.S. reader probably would find it awkward, or would think (as
Johan Hiemstra pointed out) that the writer was being evasive.
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