Antedating of "Tsunami" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Victor Steinbok]

<grin>
Does that mean that editors of quotation collections will now start
scouring volumes of Talmage's works for lines that will eventually be
attributed to Mark Twain? ;-)

     VS-)

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> Poster:       Jesse Sheidlower<jester at PANIX.COM>
> Subject:      Re: Antedating of "Tsunami" (UNCLASSIFIED)
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> And forgive me if I'm repeating something that's been said
> elsewhere in the thread, but this same article appears a few
> days earlier in NPA in the _Marion (Iowa) Pilot), 23 July 1896
> p. 2/2
>
> The fact that an article on the same page makes reference to a
> sermon by a certain Dr. Talmage just proves that, when push
> comes to shove, all of ADS-L is really only one big thread
> after all.
>
> Jesse Sheidlower
> OED
>
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