auto/Otto

[Wilson Gray]

"Our Father, which art in heaven, Harold be thy name."

-Wilson

On 12/13/06, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> At 12/13/2006 11:01 AM, Charles Doyle wrote:
> >Just this minute I finished reading an undergraduate's final exam
> >paper in which this sentence appears:  "The Duke leaves to dawn the
> >cloak of a friar."  A carpetbagger in Georgia, obviously.
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> Did the student mean to write "The Duke leaves at dawn by the clock
> of a friar"?
>
> Joel
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