SOTA?: "=?windows-1252?Q?=85_?=the animals they _slayed_."

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Fri Nov 30 14:53:18 UTC 2012


Well, if they were reindeer, they were probably sleighed.

LH

On Nov 30, 2012, at 6:50 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> You sley me.
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> JL
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> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 11:24 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Shouldn't that be _slaid_? Where's spellcheck, when you need it? <har!
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