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- From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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- Subject: Re: signoff
- Date: 23 Jan 1993 22:47:10 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA (Peter Montgomery) says:
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- >>>At the other end, I suppose, one might tell an overly diarrheic doxy to
- >>>loosen up a bit.
- >>>
- >>>diarrhoeic. English Professors, I ask you...
- >>
- >> Even academics need spellcheckers.... probably more than most....
- >
- >Ruth, tch, tch. The spelling I used is the U.S. one as in Am. Her.
- >As for the other spelling, it's just like the bloody pommie bastards
- >to dip a thong where it doesn't belong.
- >
- The above is the one my Cassel's gives, too. Don't blame the Brits, you
- crazy Canadian; it's the Greeks who have to answer for that piece of messy
- business.... [and lots of other things, too]
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- --
- ### Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead ###
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