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[Lynne Murphy]

--On Tuesday, June 25, 2002 1:54 pm +0000 "James A. Landau"
<JJJRLandau at AOL.COM> wrote:

> Seriously, this is the second time in two days that you have used the
> expression "our bad" or "my bad".  I don't recall ever having heard this
> expression before.

Which means that you don't know my brother John.  He's used it at least
since he was in college (in Ohio, in the late 80s).

Lynne



Dr M Lynne Murphy
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Acting Director, MA in Applied Linguistics
School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
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