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- From: st1ns@elroy.uh.edu (Ault, Russell W.)
- Newsgroups: rec.humor
- Subject: Re: I am stumped, please help!
- Date: 2 Jan 1993 15:34 CST
- Organization: University of Houston
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- In article <19118@mindlink.bc.ca>, Robyn_Clark@mindlink.bc.ca (Robyn Clark) writes...
- >Thats cuz Webster is a bloody Yank... All questions on English one should
- >turn to the source... The Oxford English Dictionery (grin)...!
- >
-
- It's my understanding that the OED compilers recently decided to give it up
- and pass the job on to those in whose vicinity the language was continuing to
- evolve. That may have been an erroneous report, however, as it was published
- in a journal which originated in Canada if my memory serves me correctly. I
- wish I had saved the article, as I doubted its authenticity at the time and
- still find it incredible that any academic would abandon a project whose
- funding had not been exhausted...
-
- My wife went to Harvard and all I got was this lousy .sig!
- Russ Ault, aka st1ns@jetson.uh.edu
- (For the moment, anyway. I reserve the right to
- polymorph myself into something more formidable.)
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-