quare -- back by popular demand

[Joel S. Berson]

At 3/3/2009 09:02 PM, George Thompson wrote:
>nothing in the paragraph indicates that the speaker was Irish,
>though he may have been.

If this had appeared in an 18th century newspaper, we would have
known -- if Irish, he would have been so identified.

Joel

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