"Is this a great country, or what?"

Thu Mar 16 23:03:14 UTC 2006

Russian emigre' comic Yakov Smirnoff was using the tagline, "What a great country !" about twenty years ago. But I'm not sure about the specific form you're looking for.

  JL

Geoffrey Nunberg <nunberg at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU> wrote:
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Does anybody have an idea what the source of this is?

Geoff Nunberg

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