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- From: Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
- Subject: Re: African-American-top
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.000359.26486@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 00:03:59 GMT
- References: <mjenkins.725757417@cunews> <1992Dec31.140618.15453@panix.com>
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- In article <1992Dec31.140618.15453@panix.com> ilaine@panix.com (Liz Stokes) writes:
- > I heard a similar story about a newspaper that always replaced
- >'fireman' with 'firefighter' which worked fine until they ran a story about
- >19th century locomotives.
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- The News and Observer of Raleigh, N.C., recently ran a story about the
- racist incidents in Germany which referred to "the Kristallnacht program."
- Apparently some idiot with a spelling checker but without any knowledge
- of history had fixed the word which had unaccountably been corrupted
- to "p-o-g-r-o-m" in transmission.
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