Small and Little

[Norm Jensen]

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> At 3:34 PM +0000 6/17/10, ronbutters at aol.com wrote:
> >It seems to me that, as second language "imperfections" go, this one
> >is little and tiny. His English is definitely better than my Swedish.
> >
> >And maybe he was just attributing to BP the point of view expressed
> >in the Billy Joel song:
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> Wasn't that Randy Newman?
>
Randy Newman sang about Short People.

Norm

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