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For what it's worth - and I am no grammarian, by any means, so this is just the way I remember the rules from nearly 50 years ago. "Alcoholics Anonymous is a *fellowship of people* who share *their*

Thom, ?I cant agree with you more. I cant believe a conference voted to change anything about "modem to modem". Many of you have factually been helping each other and exchanging info, "modem to

There is a grammatical error in Step Three. The word "will" should be plural like "lives" right after it. I don't think BW was referring to collective will. I note in "Writing the Big Book," p. 458,

The AA preamble shifts from ‘they’ in the first reference to ‘we’ in the latter, leaving a reader to wonder. I had hoped, when the fellowship took on the change from ‘men and women’ to

There are now two to three subjects being talked about. So first off, when a new EDITION of 'Alcoholics Anonymous' is published, the OLD forewords, and need to remain ?"as is", meaning the Forewords

Quoting from p. 93 of *Advisory Actions of the General Service Conference of Alcoholics Anonymous 1951-2022* ([M-39](https://www.aa.org/m-39-advisory-actions)), under the section "Advisory Actions

People never bring up what Bill wrote in the “We Are Now“ Chapters in the 1st Editions about Cleveland… You have to take that in to Acct when making a supposition about the early group from

Thurs May 11th 1939

As others have previously mentioned, there are a few points to consider. 1. The Forward to 2nd edition was definitely frozen, as it was written by Bill. (The Forward to 4th edition was changed because

Do we know if there was a certain dictionary that Bill may have used while he was writing the big book?? I have never heard anyone mention any specific dictionary, but the idea was brought up in

The following files and folders have been uploaded to the Files area of the [email protected] group. * /The Oxford Group/The Eight Pointso of the Oxford Group.pdf (

A Tale that needs to be told. Best Regards, Barry Murtaugh 773.851.2100

I have some messages (known as "threads" back in the FIDOnet (BBS) and Usenet days) between Penny and myself. Many with Rich, too. I hung out on Recovery BBS a lot even though my home BBS was called

I believe that removing the sentence would be wrong, changing the year from 1937 to 1939 would be an honest and historically accurate amendment. As we know the forward to the 2nd edition was written

Yea you are right its not frozen but the several known errors seem frozen. Just for historical accuracy it seems like no brainers to update those couple things. I do have the 401 changes somewhere I

This is the wording in the 28th printing of Third Edition (1987). According to Allan Gengler, the 26th printing ?(1986) is the same. A second small group had promptly taken shape at New York. And

From Penny 2P? to me today. Penny is one of the remaining pioneers of early Online and digital AA meetings. Her talk at the AA History Symposium earlier in the year was recorded and I have a

[Moderator note: the following text was also in another message, also by Brad that for some reason when I approved it didn't show up. But luckily I had it in my email and was able to at least give you

I totally forgot. The second small group sentence wad REMOVED by the literature committee at some point. According to GSO archives, the removal of the sentence was brought to the attention of GSO in