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  1. Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!auvm!BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU!EL406041
  3. Message-ID: <WORDS-L%93012323594075@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
  4. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
  5. Date:         Sat, 23 Jan 1993 23:53:03 EST
  6. Sender:       English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
  7. From:         EL406041@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU
  8. Subject:      Re: Shark
  9. Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu
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  12. Posted on 23 Jan 1993 at 22:20:56 by Peter Montgomery
  13. >Suppose they all did originate
  14. >in Shakespeare's mind/imagination. Can 'we' not say they were born
  15. >out of nothing?
  16.  
  17. Shakespeare's brain is not nothing.
  18.  
  19. >Alternatively, do we have to say Shakespeare got
  20. >them from some where? If so, where?
  21.  
  22. I don't know where he got them from, but chances are he popularized
  23. their usage rather than inventing each and every one of them out of
  24. the whole cloth of his imagination.
  25.  
  26. Karen
  27.