the server is hallucinating

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Wed Mar 13 16:04:47 UTC 2002


At 10:55 AM -0500 3/13/02, Alice Faber wrote:
>Steve Kl. wrote:
>>On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Alice Faber wrote:
>>
>>>  The repeating started around Thursday or Friday but the repeated posts were
>>>  older. In any case, it seems to have stopped for now (touch wood).
>>
>>What's the distinction between touching wood and knocking wood?
>
>How bruised your knuckles are?
>
>>Is there
>>regional variation?
>
>Not that I'm aware of. For what it's worth, I'm from the NY area.
>--
So am I, and I've always heard and used "knock on wood" or, less
often, "knock wood".

larry



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