"... a wry _smurk_ came over his face ..."

[Joel S. Berson]

Wilson, you are both suspicious and insightful.

Joel

At 4/4/2011 02:24 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

>On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
> > Are you sure that's not an OCR error for "smurf" or perhaps
> > "snork"?
>
>Yes. This was from a letter posted to another listserv. Not to mention
>that the proposed alternatives,
>
>"... a wry _smurf_ came over his face ..."
>
>or
>
>"... a wry _snork_ came over his face ..."
>
>are so ridiculous that I suspect that you're pulling my leg. Or else,
>I've entirely missed your point.
>
>Youneverknow.
>
>--
>-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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