One happy language!

[Jonathan Lighter]

See, you *can* prove anything with statistics.

JL

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
> > And how many of the "happy" words were modified or preceded by "not,"
> "anything but," "far from," "never will be," and the like?
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> A telling point, Charlie!:-)
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