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  1. Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!gmd.de!jvnc.net!yale.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!cs.utexas.edu!torn!watserv1!mach4!brea9430
  3. From: brea9430@mach4.wlu.ca (breadner kenneth cecil joseph u)
  4. Subject: Words that peeve
  5. Message-ID: <1992Jul26.164840.4323@mach4.wlu.ca>
  6. Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
  7. Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 16:48:40 GMT
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  10. My list of words which annoy would have to include all the terms of
  11. "legalese":
  12.  
  13. --thusly (already mentioned)
  14. --hereinbefore (who coined this one?!)
  15. --likewise, "thereinafter"
  16.  
  17. Why, oh why, can't lawyers use language the rest of us can wade through
  18. wihout the use of hip waders?
  19.  
  20. Ken
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