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  1. Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!kauri.vuw.ac.nz!marder
  3. From: marder@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (Stephen Marder)
  4. Subject: Re: Bonniful glips &c.
  5. Nntp-Posting-Host: kauri.vuw.ac.nz
  6. Message-ID: <Bx9AD8.92p@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
  7. Organization: Victoria University of Wellington
  8. Sender: news@comp.vuw.ac.nz (News Admin)
  9. References: <dconway.18.0@cs1.uct.ac.za>
  10. Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 18:36:44 GMT
  11. Lines: 15
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  13. In article <dconway.18.0@cs1.uct.ac.za> dconway@cs1.uct.ac.za (D CONWAY) writes:
  14. >    The powerful find buses silly.
  15. >
  16. >Only criticism is that "powerful" is an adjectival noun, so - could you find 
  17. >a *noun* which ends in "ful", or even a whole new sentence which preferably 
  18. >doesn't have any word classes in the predicted order?
  19. >
  20.    What about 'handful'?
  21.  
  22.  
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  24. Stephen Marder                 P.O. Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand
  25. Russian Section             Email:Stephen.Marder@vuw.ac.nz
  26. School of European Languages       Telephone: +64 4 472-1000 x8824
  27. Victoria University of Wellington
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