spreadsheet friendly (was: antedating "hobo" 1885)

[Mark Mandel]

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Randy Alexander
<strangeguitars at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 3:49 AM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> > What's great about truespel phonetics is that it's spreadsheet friendly.
>
> What's great about the ADS-L archives...
>
> http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?S1=ads-l
>
> ...is that you can search for {spreadsheet friendly} (without braces), and
> find that that phrase has already been mentioned on ADS-L no less than
> *eight* times, all by Tom Zurinskas!  Isn't that overkill?
>

Excluding material quoted from earlier posts?

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