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[Lynne Murphy]

This is the second time I've seen this in Amy Reiter's gossip column on
Salon:

What's  more, Inge Bongo alleges in a lawsuit filed last week, onaccounta a
broken lock on the house's front door she had to use a dog door to come and
go.

Different motivation than the one-word 'atleast', I'm sure.  Kinda cute.

Lynne

M Lynne Murphy
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School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
University of Sussex
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