another "bare PST/PSP"

[Wilson Gray]

"Cut-and-paste it" instead of "cut-and-pasted it" may be an instance
of haplogy. :-)

-Wilson
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On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
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> caught on the radio this morning, something like "the lawyer had cut
> and paste ..."  another case where the PST and/or PSP is identical to
> the PRS and BSE forms.  a few examples could be googled up:
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> ... enter them using the -p flag), then run the code for the tool as
> if you had cut and paste it from the website.
> sysbio.harvard.edu/csb/resources/computational/scriptome/UNIX/
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> I was addressing that remark and had cut-and-paste it out of the
> larger ms. to draw attention to it.
> https://listserv.unb.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9603&L=wwwdev&T=0&F=P&P=24755
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> It was like someone had cut and paste it all together within the space
> of half an hour with little respect for continuity and allowing the
> viewer to ...
> www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=500749
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> I had cut and paste it months ago from an article and assumed it was
> spelled correctly.
> www.puritanboard.com/f47/church-members-free-agents-pt-3-q-31387/
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> arnold
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