Jazz, was:RE: [ADS-L] Q: "Earliest written reference to baseball"

Wed Mar 16 15:31:36 UTC 2011

Arnold, it showed up correctly on my screen!  It's a little disconcerting to think that different readers are seeing different things.  Or maybe just postmodern . . . .

--Charlie

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From: American Dialect Society [ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] on behalf of Arnold Zwicky [zwicky at STANFORD.EDU]
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 10:57 AM

On Mar 16, 2011, at 7:50 AM, i wrote:
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> Mary: Well, yesâˆ‘
> Lou: I hate spunk.

well, actually, I wrote: "Well, yes..." and the ellipsis dots magically turned into a cap sigma in transmission.

arnold

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