[Ads-l] NYTimes.com: "The Daily News...

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Fri Jun 30 10:17:22 UTC 2017


Maybe "one of the most awarded" too.

JL

On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 1:02 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> And, of course, that makes it grammatical. I get the picture, though the
> distinction between the New York Times Online and the Grey Lady escapes me.
>
> On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 9:43 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Not unusual. Here's a decade-old article from The Grey Lady herself:
> >
> > https://mobile.nytimes.com/2007/05/01/business/media/01paper.html
> >
> > "Sales have held fairly steady in recent years at the nation’s three
> > largest-circulation newspapers,..."
> >
> > On Jun 29, 2017 9:11 PM, "Wilson Gray" <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > the largest circulation newspaper in the country...
> > >
> > > goo.gl/YrTu5W
> > >
> > > Does the writer mean,
> > >
> > > "the _largest-circulationed_ newspaper in the country"?
> > >
> > > Or even,
> > >
> > > "the newspaper with the largest circulation in the country"?
> > >
> > > Youneverknow.
> > >
> > > --
> > > -Wilson
> > > -----
> > > 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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>
>
> --
> -Wilson
> -----
> 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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