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Subject:RE: A comment on the apostrophe From:"Dick Margulis" <margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 11 Jan 2001 15:16:19 -0500
"Maggie Secara" wrote:
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>Which tells me Carnegie, like so many others, missed the point of the OED.
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To which I would add that I was given _The Professor and the Madman : A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary_, by Simon Winchester, for Christmas. It's a fast and fascinating read and I recommend it.
Dick
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