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| On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 19:42:59 -0700, The Real Bev
<bashley@myrealbox.com> wrote:
>Neil Brooks wrote:
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>French, if anything. Without it it would be pronounced something like 'loNG",
>which is clearly wrong even if it WASN'T a frog who said it.
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>Hey, *I* noticed :-)
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>They list it as a 'variant'. I bet the OED (anybody got a subscription?) is a
>bit less tolerant.
I do have at work.. I'll look it up when I get back there later in the
week. The compact OED online doens't like lense though.
Tom
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>...refers to the M-W entry. At least they have the decency to NOT list 'axe'
>as a variant of 'ask'.
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>"Every spelling lame shall itself contain at least one misspelling."
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