"novel" (in the Britannica); PLUS "diary" = memoir

[Wilson Gray]

What?! "_Copyright_ 1988" and not "_copyrighted_ 1988"? Now, I can die
happy. I've long feared that I would never again see the
un-hypercorrected form in casual writing in this life. Barukh ha-Shem!

-Wilson

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Jim Parish <jparish at siue.edu> wrote:
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> Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>> 2005 _The New Encyclopaedia Britannica_ I 278: Allen, Hervey....Allen
>> was w= ounded in World War I. The novel _Toward the Flame_ (1926) came
>> out of his = wartime experience.
>
> The passage, including the use of "novel", appears in the 15th edition
> as well; my set is copyright 1988.
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> Jim Parish
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