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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