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291	Geoffrey York has another article in today's Globe and Mail detailing the worsening tribulations experienced by "unilaterals": ...	Paul McFedries mailinglists@...	Apr 1, 2003 1:33 pm
292	KwicOnGoogle: http://163.136.182.112/xyz01/ Paul http://www.wordspy.com/...	Paul McFedries mailinglists@...	Apr 3, 2003 12:11 pm
293	What criterion should one use to determine if one is actually dead or not? I don't want to drag this low-traffic group into a discussion of the war; I'm asking...	Steve Kl. skleinedler	Apr 8, 2003 1:21 pm
294	Steve I think you must leave it as an open date until the death is known by several reports, or, preferably, an identified corpse. Frank Abate...	Frank Abate word2mine	Apr 8, 2003 1:44 pm
295	... What if there is no corpse? If what is being reported is true -- that the building was blown to dust -- at what point do we take it to be fact? When the US...	Steve Kl. skleinedler	Apr 8, 2003 1:50 pm
296	Well, aside from Chevy Chase and SNL having fun some years back with the passing of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, I cannot think of another one recently. It...	Frank Abate word2mine	Apr 8, 2003 3:27 pm
297	I agree with Frank that you have to leave it as an open date. That's one of those things with reference publishing. Even if a person is terminally ill at the...	Victoria Neufeldt v.neufeldt@...	Apr 8, 2003 6:25 pm
298	... In my case, it's just a reprint of a minor title, and can just easily wait till the next printing after that, but it's something I've never had to think...	Steve Kl. skleinedler	Apr 8, 2003 6:32 pm
299	In the book "The Man Who Deciphered Linear B", I saw the word "ethnica" used to describe the native of a land, like American for America, Dane for Denmark. I...	bkipfer	Apr 14, 2003 10:28 am
300	Fred's discovery of bakery in Washington is a marvelous antedating (see below), but from the context it is clear that it is by no means the first-ever...	Frank Abate word2mine	Apr 18, 2003 1:04 pm
301	"Ethnica" is the plural of Latin "ethnica." If you do a Google search on "ethnicum" you will get a lot of links referring to uses of the word for an ethnic...	Edward Gates edwardgates@...	Apr 18, 2003 5:00 pm
302	You can see it at http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ViewItem&category=12570&item=3514537043&rd=1....	bkipfer	Apr 20, 2003 11:01 am
303	... Sold now; thanks to everybody for having patience with me while I tried to sell some books....	bkipfer	Apr 22, 2003 3:45 pm
304	Thought it was sold -- but it is still here. Listed it on eBay for US only, then someone bought it from South Korea. It would cost more to ship than the...	bkipfer	Apr 30, 2003 3:26 pm
305	Thought it was sold -- but it is still here. Listed it on eBay for US only, then someone bought it from South Korea. It would cost more to ship than the...	bkipfer	Apr 30, 2003 3:38 pm
306	Dear Barbara, Thanks, but I have one. Regards, David...	Barnhart Barnhart@...	Apr 30, 2003 4:44 pm
307	For anyone who missed the last day to get the "bargain" price at the Marriott for the DSNA conference, like I did, there's this place: ...	Orin Hargraves orinkh@...	Apr 30, 2003 4:56 pm
308	... The bargain price day has passed? Crap. I can't believe how quickly time's passing....	Steve Kl. skleinedler	Apr 30, 2003 8:29 pm
309	Hey, I just called and got a room -- the 28th is the day that they release those rooms if there's a demand for them. They still might have more.... -- Steve...	Steve Kl. skleinedler	Apr 30, 2003 8:35 pm
310	Please excuse the spam. The Oxford English Dictionary is having a special offer for individual subscriptions to OED Online. Members of the DSNA can buy...	Jesse Sheidlower jsheidlower	May 1, 2003 12:23 am
311	Thanks to all who wrote advising me of the relaxed deadline at Marriott. But I find that the prospect of being able to take my own tea and having facilities in...	Orin Hargraves orinkh@...	May 1, 2003 11:17 am
312	What a neat surprise to hear you being interviewed on CBC tonight, Erin! Interesting conversation about 'shut up' and melioration in general, and other...	Debbie Sawczak Jan@...	May 2, 2003 3:05 am
313	Debbie, how nice! Thanks for letting me know it aired. Occasionally they do radio things and then I never hear them (or hear of them) again! Looking forward to...	editor@... editorverbatim	May 2, 2003 12:14 pm
314	And .... I should not be allowed to do email at 8 in the morning on five hours' sleep. Sorry for the to-the-list post. I am looking for freelancer resumes,...	editor@... editorverbatim	May 2, 2003 12:26 pm
315	I got a spam trying to sell this CD which appears to have a great wodge of public domain texts on it. What's not clear is (a) whether you can copy them to...	Orin Hargraves orinkh@...	May 4, 2003 11:41 am
316		Luanne von Schneideme... Lvonschn@...	May 12, 2003 5:31 pm
317	Dear Colleague, Below please find a job posting for an exciting opportunity at Oxford University Press. I'd be grateful if you could pass this on to your...	Jesse Sheidlower jsheidlower	May 13, 2003 1:12 am
318	... OED has "all the tea in China" from Eric Partridge's slang dictionary (1937). Dictionaries never coin words. Partridge says it's Australian. << Not quite...	Frank Abate word2mine	May 13, 2003 12:16 pm
319	... The entry you're probably thinking of, which appeared in the first printing of the Third New International Dictionary, is dord. It came into being when a...	jdespres@...	May 13, 2003 1:43 pm
320	The ghost word in MWII was "Dord." It was supposed to be "D or d" but was run together & other dictionaries picked it up. It would be interesting to see how...	Sidney Landau slandau1755@...	May 13, 2003 1:47 pm

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