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- From: roger@crux.Princeton.EDU (Roger Lustig)
- Subject: Re: axe (was Re: quite unique research?)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.210017.19444@Princeton.EDU>
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- Reply-To: roger@astro.princeton.edu (Roger Lustig)
- Organization: Princeton University
- References: <1992Nov17.161732.2605@Princeton.EDU> <1992Nov17.200903.3843@news.columbia.edu> <lgl51gINNqf6@news.bbn.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:00:17 GMT
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- In article <lgl51gINNqf6@news.bbn.com> rnewman@bbn.com (Ron Newman) writes:
- >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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- You just *had* to axe, didn't you? 8-)
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- Roger
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