On Nov 10, 2004, at 4:02 PM, Alison Murie wrote: > Speaking of NPR, Carl Castle this morning said "Yasir Arafat lays > (seriously ill, in a coma, or sthg sim)." ... believe it or not, the man's last name is Kasell. see geoff pullum's april foolishness on the spelling of this reporter's name: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001020.html