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- From: briand@tekig5.pen.tek.com (Brian D Diehm)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: axe (was Re: quite unique research?)
- Message-ID: <7663@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 18:22:47 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.200903.3843@news.columbia.edu> <lgl51gINNqf6@news.bbn.com> <1992Nov18.210017.19444@Princeton.EDU>
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- >>|> In that vain, "most unique" would probably still
- ^^^^ nothing intravenous here!
- >>|> 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.
- >
- >>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".
- >
- >You just *had* to axe, didn't you? 8-)
-
- You can just *bet* that's the way our retiring (but not shy) vice-president
- spells it!
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