in USA Today

Arnold M. Zwicky zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Wed Jun 25 14:14:22 UTC 2008


On Jun 25, 2008, at 7:03 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

> At 6/25/2008 12:18 AM, LanDi Liu wrote:
>> Note that according to the poll on the left side of the page,
>> "boyfriend or girlfriend" is the overwhelming majority (41%).
>
> For shame!  :-)  That's merely a plurality.  Else, Mboto would no
> longer be president of Zimbabwe,...

that would be Mugabe, not Mboto.

arnold

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