"up most"

Arnold M. Zwicky zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Sun Aug 24 15:22:16 UTC 2008


On Aug 23, 2008, at 7:26 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:

> My wife is furious at the dysfunctional webmail service provided by
> our ISP and wrote them a scathing comment today. The second reply from
> the service staff, or maybe just the complaint reader, included the
> following
>
>> I do treat every issue with the up most respect and
>> attention that it requires. That is why I suggest that
>> you use another mail client as webmail is not the best
>> out there. Simply put.
>
> "The up most" gets 65k raw googits, including "the up-most".

and it's in Brians:

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/upmost.html

it's mentioned in comments on the ecdb, but doesn't have its own entry
(yet).

arnold

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