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<font size=3>At 09:58 AM 2/24/2001 -0500, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite cite>My sense of "have got" is that the
"got" is usually superfluous.<br>
<br>
Bob</blockquote><br>
Any more superfluous than in "I've got the same book" (as a
variant of "I have the same book")?<br>
<br>
Sali.<br>
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