bacabre

[Douglas G. Wilson]

Randy Alexander wrote:
>
>> From a student at San Francisco State in 2007:
>>
>> Â "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.
>>
>
> Where do you think the <b> is coming from?
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 From "bizarre" maybe.

-- Doug Wilson

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