"up most"

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Aug 24, 2008, at 8:56 AM, Chris Waigl wrote:

> 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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>> Subject:      Re: "up most"
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>> 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).

go for it, chris!  (at the moment, i'm mostly on Language Log duty,
plus filing material from ADS-L and LLog.)

arnold

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