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Subject:Re: Malapropism of the day From:Michael Lewis <lewism -at- BRANDLE -dot- COM -dot- AU> Date:Thu, 18 Dec 1997 16:15:15 +1100
Esther Wheeler wrote:
> "Really, I don't think I ... Wait a sec, do you mean canonical order?"
>
> "Oh, yeah, I might, how do you spell that?"
Sheer joy. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
(BTW, anything this guy writes, the Washington Post will probably
attribute to a "technical writer". Them's the breaks ...)
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Michael Lewis
Brandle Pty Limited, Sydney, Australia
PO Box 1249, Strawberry Hills, NSW 2012
Suite 8, The Watertower, 1 Marian St, Redfern 2016
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