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<font size=3>At 6/4/2009 03:00 PM, Alison Murie wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">I wonder what
"cackles"-speakers imagine cackles to look like!
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They are heard but not seen. But cockles, alive-ho. (And
hackles have been described elsewhere.)<br><br>
In passing, I wonder whether the following, reported by Benjamin Zimmer,
is not a pun:<br>
<a href="http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/04/students-respond-to-obama/?apage=6#comments" eudora="autourl">
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/04/students-respond-to-obama/?apage=6#comments<br>
</a>"Since Islam never went through the equivalent of a Reformation
and<br>
Counter-Reformation to hash out matters, little progress can be seen<br>
beyond these execrable comments that raise no cackles at all at the
NY<br>
Times."<br><br>
Does the author mean "cause no laughter at the Times"?<br><br>
Joel</font></body>
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