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- From: gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener)
- Subject: Re: Various things
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.203520.7632@news.columbia.edu>
- Sender: usenet@news.columbia.edu (The Network News)
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- Reply-To: gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener)
- Organization: Columbia University
- References: <1992Nov8.042646.10166@news.columbia.edu> <1992Nov11.031832.10973@oracorp.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 20:35:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov11.031832.10973@oracorp.com> harper@oracorp.com (Douglas Harper) writes:
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- >Here's another word whose initial vowel is usually shortened in the
- >U.S.: "lived", as in "short-lived".
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- Not everywhere. This new yorker says "short-lived" with the long I.
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- Gabe Wiener - Columbia Univ. "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings
- gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu to be seriously considered as a means of
- N2GPZ in ham radio circles communication. The device is inherently of
- 72355,1226 on CI$ no value to us." -Western Union memo, 1877
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