bacabre

[Jonathan Lighter]

>From a student at San Francisco State in 2007:

 "i have also heard the actual wax recording whcih sounds so bacabre, but in
fact is an amazing experience"

http://vote.sparklit.com/comments.spark?contentID=1047430&pollID=1000416

She's talking about Tennyson's top-forty recording in 1892 of "The Charge of
the Light Brigade."

It doesn't strike me as particularly bacabre.

JL

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