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- From: crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford)
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- Subject: Re: axe (was Re: quite unique research?)
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- Date: 19 Nov 92 20:41:30 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.161732.2605@Princeton.EDU> <1992Nov17.200903.3843@news.columbia.edu> <lgl51gINNqf6@news.bbn.com>
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- In article <lgl51gINNqf6@news.bbn.com> rnewman@bbn.com (Ron Newman) 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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