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- From: jefu@nmt.edu (Jeff Putnam)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: correction to end-of-year reading
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.004904.25106@nmt.edu>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 00:49:04 GMT
- References: <1992Dec28.042824.21100@Csli.Stanford.EDU>
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- In article <1992Dec28.042824.21100@Csli.Stanford.EDU> zwicky@csli.stanford.edu (Arnold Zwicky) writes:
- >martha *grimes*, not martha *stewart* (as mara points out).
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- >i just can't cope with these colorless names. smith, stewart,
- >wolf, jones, anderson, grimes, miller, fox...all the same to me.
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- I would have thought that "grime" was rather colorful, though not
- saturated color. Like "the sweep, all grimy..." (shades (so to
- speak) of "chim, chim, cheree...".
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