"Word" words?

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Sat Apr 26 17:55:26 UTC 2008


At 12:51 PM -0400 4/26/08, Herb Stahlke wrote:
>And, of course, the Los Angeles Angels.
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>Herb

formerly the Anaheim Angels, and before that the California Angels.
But now that they're going by "The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim",
they're simultaneously redundant and contradictory, not an easy trick
to pull off.

LH
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>On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Katharine The Grate
><KatharineTheGrate at comcast.net> wrote:
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