Really?

[Arnold Zwicky]

On Sep 12, 2011, at 9:05 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:

>
> Could the IMO BS claim in this chain-email possibly be any parts of
> true? It strikes me as ridiculous...
>

this particular items crops up again and again.  i posted on it on LLog in 2007, in "Scrambling in Internet folklore" --

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004103.html

with a link back to Mark Liberman's 2003 discussion, in "INVERALENT JUMUMBLE AT THE GUARDIAN" --

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/%7Emyl/languagelog/archives/000053.html

apparently, trash never dies.  azanmig, hunh?

arnold

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