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- From: rnewman@bbn.com (Ron Newman)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: axe (was Re: quite unique research?)
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- Date: 18 Nov 92 19:06:24 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.210423.11779@Princeton.EDU> <1992Nov17.044553.27898@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Nov17.161732.2605@Princeton.EDU> <1992Nov17.200903.3843@news.columbia.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov17.200903.3843@news.columbia.edu>, gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener) writes:
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- |> In that vain, "most unique" would probably still
- |> lose out, as would "axe" and "less items" and a whole lot of others
- |> that you have at one time or another have claimed to be acceptable.
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- Pardon me, I just got here. But what is supposed to be wrong
- with the word "axe" ? I've always understood it to be
- a perfectly good alternate spelling of "ax".
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