Failure to fail to apply @-Insertion

[Mark Mandel]

I've always considered those to be optional variants: whether or not to
syllabify the /l/.

Mark Mandel


On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 7:23 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> My wife:
>
> "... hitting the _re-cycle-ing_ industry really hard."
>
> Your faithful correspondent:
>
> "_Recycling_ industry."
>
> My wife:
>
> "Yes. They're having real problems."
>
> [an interesting consequence noted locally: Harvard, formerly *paid*
> $10.00/ton by recyclers for the privilege of disposing of its trash,
> will now be *paying* re-cyclers $10.00/ton for the privilege of having
> its trash disposed of.]
>
>
>
> Oh, well. Another addition to my already overly-extensive _Winter-y
> weather_ list.
>
> -Wilson
>
> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -----
> -Mark Twain
>
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