American English (was Re: [lbo-talk] five pundits in the dock)

[Jordan Hayes]

> My co-workers (all of them Irish), for example, are currently
> afraid to use either "imply" or "infer" because - for reasons
> that thoroughly baffle me - they can't work out the difference
> between the two, and know I will scream if they get it wrong
> *again*.

mine all seem to have the same problem with "brief" and "debrief" . . .