"the" wife

Mark_Mandel at DRAGONSYS.COM Mark_Mandel at DRAGONSYS.COM
Mon Oct 18 20:53:19 UTC 1999


Andrea writes:

     Not to mention the mirror on the passenger side visor...(oops, too late)

As William F. Buckley said in a similar construction,

     Ah, the joys of paralepsis!


-- Dr. Whom: Consulting Linguist, Grammarian,
   Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody
   a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel



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