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Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Fri Jul 15 19:36:06 UTC 2011


On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Brenda Lester <alphatwin2002 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Bolinger concluded that the common English accent and pronunciation were best, rather than Spanish.

Close one! Needless to say, the English language dodged a bullet!;-)
Seems like a tremendous waste of the public treasure, though.

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