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  1. Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!paladin.american.edu!auvm!!TOAL
  3. Message-ID: <9212302214.AA03225@rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk>
  4. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
  5. Date:         Wed, 30 Dec 1992 22:14:56 GMT
  6. Sender:       English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
  7. From:         Graham Toal
  8.               <gtoal%rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk%kate.ibmpcug.co.uk@KATE.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
  9. Subject: Re: inventing a label
  10. Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu
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  13.         interminable cross-talk acts. If I ask what causes objects
  14.         more than 25 cms away from my eyes go blurry will you say
  15.         "myopia"?
  16.  
  17. Why not? - that's what doctors do.  I know someone who got into a
  18. heated argument saying "I'm not just bald - I've got alopecia".
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