<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>>>I have an undergrad this quarter who insists that "Noah Webster's
<BR>>>Dictionary" is the bible of pronunciation and usage. Ugh! (He doesn't
<BR>>>know the difference between Noah's and the modern Websters, of course.)
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<BR>Probably not even marginally apropos to "ADS visibility and madman:"
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<BR> Sockless Jerry Simpson, Kansas Congressman in the late 19th
<BR>Century, in an impassioned tribute to the great Daniel Webster, asked,
<BR>"And who among us can forget his monumental Dictionary ?" When a
<BR>colleague whispered to him, "NOAH wrote the dictionary." Simpson
<BR>hissed <U>sotto</U> <U>voce</U>, "Noah built the ark, you idiot."
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<BR> Steve Hicks
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