"Early-Bird[ Reservation]s Almost Sold _Through_."

[Wilson Gray]

Shouldn't that be,

"Sold _Out_"

?

>From an ad for a conference to be held in L.A. and sponsored by an
American technology publication.

They must have outsourced their pr's, then had the resulting copy
grammar-checked by a computer.
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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