"can do so much"

[Wilson Gray]

Thanks for the ref, arnold.

-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.
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-Mark Twain





On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
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> On May 23, 2009, at 6:58 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
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>> When I looked a few years ago, I found  "couldn't care less" in print
>> from 1944 and "could care less" from 1955:...
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> slightly longer discussion here:
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> ML, 4/13/05: Wrong for so long:
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