"up most"

[Chris Waigl]

It will within the next 30min. Except if you're telling me you're in the
middle of drafting one.

Chris
("dough-eyed" too)

On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 08:22:16 -0700, "Arnold M. Zwicky"
<zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU> wrote:
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> On Aug 23, 2008, at 7:26 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:
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>> 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:
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> http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/upmost.html
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> it's mentioned in comments on the ecdb, but doesn't have its own entry
> (yet).
>
> arnold
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