quote = 'say or write (something memorable)'

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Wed Aug 18 23:12:10 UTC 2010


On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:

> quoted

Maybe it's a hypercorrection of _quoth_.

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-Wilson
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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.
–Mark Twain

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