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Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Thu Mar 9 01:30:28 UTC 2006


>from a post to another list:
>"And the Bible is one of the most violent books on record, with rapes,
>murders and massacres to book, and I haven't seen a movement to ban it
>because of that content."
>  I suppose this could be a confusion between "brought to book" and "to boot."
>AM

Or a typo, influenced by the just-mentioned "books".

L

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