Usage of 'Nexis' is Baffling

[Wilson Gray]

It also could be the case that the writer did use "nexus," but had it
"corrected" to "nexis" by some semi-literate editor more familiar with
"Nexis" than with the English lexicon.

-Wilson

On 4/7/07, Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at csli.stanford.edu> wrote:
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> On Apr 7, 2007, at 7:50 AM, Doug Harris wrote:
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> > Does anyone understand what the author of this letter, published in
> > today
> > Sacramento Bee, meant in her use of the word 'nexis'?....
> >
> > What's fascinating to me on this issue and so many others involving
> > the
> > safety and security of California families is that there doesn't
> > appear to
> > be any nexis between these tragic deaths and families destroyed and
> > the
> > voting patterns in every election.
>
> i'd say that the word she was aiming for was "nexus", intending it as
> a fancy substitute for "connection".
>
> arnold
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