new research into semantic categories

[Judy Prince]

I'll let your pathetic pun slip by this time, Robin, if you promise to use
Spelchek next time.

Rigidly yours,

Judy, the "uninion" organiser

On 11 February 2010 20:02, ROBIN HAMILTON <robin.hamilton2 at btinternet.com>wrote:

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> > Robin Hamilton wrote to Joel Berson:
> >
> > "Fun this, yeah, but perhaps we'd better stop at this point
> > before we bore
> > too many people on the list more rigid than they no doubt
> > already are.  <g>"
> >
> > Pardon, Robin, but are you suggesting that the people on
> > this list are
> > rigid?  Not sure whether that's a compliment or
> > not.....
> >
> > Judy
>
> Ah, and there I'd thought that I could sneak a quite gratitous insult to
> the entire list through under the guise of a rather lame pun.
>
> I had forgotten that the ear or eye of a former uninion organiser and
> grievance committee chair would be alert to the least deviation from
> linguistic rectitude.
>
> I hope you were not *too offended.
>
> Contritely yours,
>
> Robin
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