another orphan

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Mon Sep 11 14:16:54 UTC 2006


But isn't the A[dobe]T[ype]M[anager] now obsolete?

-Wilson

On 9/10/06, Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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> I'd say the most commonly-heard reduplicated "orphan" is "ATM machine."
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