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- From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: Presently
- Message-ID: <12441@spark.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 10:48:50 GMT
- References: <C0zHBL.53K@ecf.toronto.edu> <1993Jan17.063618.3106@news.columbia.edu> <C10s7w.31u@ecf.toronto.edu> <1993Jan17.232011.3285@news.columbia.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan17.232011.3285@news.columbia.edu> gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener) writes:
- >In article <C10s7w.31u@ecf.toronto.edu> pelton@ecf.toronto.edu (PELTON MATTHEW ALAN) writes:
- >>(Of course, you people spell "colour" without the "u." :) )
- >
- >So did the Romans.
-
- Which, of course, is why they are all dead. Serves them right, too.
-
- >I don't know where "you people" got off putting some
- >silly "u" back in there.
-
- Ah! That's where we disagree. It is not a silly "u" we put there; it
- is a jolly bright one, such as you people haven't yet learnt to use.
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- >Whip, whip. Don't worry. I left an "r" out of "occurring."
-
- You left three "r"s out of three separate occur-r-ences of "occurring".
- (Hint: Say that you only mistyped it once, and your editor propagated
- the typo.)
-
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- `D'ye mind tellin me whit the two o ye are gaun oan aboot?' (The Glasgow
- Ivan A Derzhanski (iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk; iad@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu) Gospel)
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