bacabre

[Jonathan Lighter]

My immediate suspicion was, as Randy suggests, that she had a cold. However,
I reasoned that that, even if true, should not have affected her typing.

My second hypothesis was Wilson's: a mere typo.  However, in my own
experience, while it is E-Z to hit an adjacent key, it is uncommon to hit
one two keys over.  Not impossible, but not likely.

The final hypothesis (which I may use as the title for my next
majormotionpicture): the "b" comes partly from mishearing, partly from
Lauren Bacall.

Why should it have to make sense?

JL
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Randy Alexander
<strangeguitars at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 6:09 AM, Douglas G. Wilson <douglas at nb.net> 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?
> > --
> >
> > Â From "bizarre" maybe.
>
> This is more what I was looking for, unless as per Wilson's language
> change perspective, the speaker would say "hey bom, could you bake be
> some buffins?"
>
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> Randy Alexander
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