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- From: Cannam@sc.ZIB-Berlin.de (Chris Cannam)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: Hi Fi etc
- Date: 27 Jan 93 10:37:00
- Organization: Konrad Zuse Zentrum fuer Informationstechnik Berlin
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- References: <TSOS.260.727689883@uni-duesseldorf.de> <8383@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM>
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- In-reply-to: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk's message of Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:15:08 GMT
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- In article <C1H6t9.GI@demon.co.uk> gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham
- Toal) writes:
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- In article <1993Jan26.160452.5917@cs.hw.ac.uk> neilg@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil MG Gall) writes:
- : finance
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- Duh, you appear to be British - is /fei-nans/ a new trend here that I
- missed? finance has sounded like fiddlesticks! for as long as I remember.
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- Uh? To me finance is /fei-nans/, and always has been. My dictionary
- agrees with me. Or is this a bizarre joke?
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- Chris
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- --
- on sighting mathematicians it should unhook the algebra from their
- minds and replace it with poetry; on sighting poets it should
- unhook poetry from their minds and replace it with algebra
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