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- From: elle@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Ellen Keyne Seebacher)
- Subject: Looking it up (was: misspelled thread :))
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.213459.14536@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
- References: <1992Aug11.183335.25640@pellns.alleg.edu> <1992Aug12.181748.25485@bcrka451.bnr.ca>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 21:34:59 GMT
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- Rheal Nadeau:
- >I find that, in general, people just don't know how to look things up. ...
- >Amazing what you can find in a standard dictionary - have you leafed
- >through yours to find out all the types of information it offers?
-
- My sisters used to tease me unmercifully for reading the dictionary on
- a warm summer day. They missed some wonderful essays on etymology --
- their loss.
-
- >So in brief - look it up, folks. Remember, getting there is half
- >the fun!
-
- Hear, hear.
-
- --
- Ellen Keyne Seebacher elle@midway.uchicago.edu
- "It's an act of faith to be a writer in a postliterate world."
- --Rita Mae Brown
-