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[Lynne Murphy]

--On Wednesday, August 30, 2006 7:08 pm -0400 Laurence Horn
<laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:

> At 3:58 PM -0700 8/30/06, Brenda Lester wrote:
>> Uh, I head that "they" took out indigo.
>>   (unchecked rumour)
>
> Yeah, it's been declared a dwarf color.

This British/American spelling carousel is making me dizzy.

Lynne

Dr M Lynne Murphy
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and English Language
Arts B133
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QN

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