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  1. Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!inmos!fulcrum!bham!warwick!pipex!demon!gtoal
  3. From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
  4. Subject: Re: Hi Fi etc
  5. Message-ID: <C1H6t9.GI@demon.co.uk>
  6. Sender: news@demon.co.uk
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: pizzabox.demon.co.uk
  8. Organization: Cuddlehogs Anonymous
  9. References: <TSOS.260.727689883@uni-duesseldorf.de> <8383@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> <1993Jan26.160452.5917@cs.hw.ac.uk>
  10. Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:15:08 GMT
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  13. In article <1993Jan26.160452.5917@cs.hw.ac.uk> neilg@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil MG Gall) writes:
  14. :    finance
  15. :    five
  16. :    file
  17. :    lots of words ending "-fy" : qualify, mistify etc
  18.  
  19. Duh, you appear to be British - is /fei-nans/ a new trend here that I
  20. missed?  finance has sounded like fiddlesticks! for as long as I remember.
  21.  
  22. G
  23. (Oh, maybe you want to make it rhyme with high, as in high-fi nance?)
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