Possible antedating of uptalk

[Jonathan Lighter]

"Holy Follett!" would have been better though.

JL

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Jonathan Lighter
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> > That should have been "no fewer than."
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> That was close!;-)
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