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[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 4:09 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> 1971


This iconic work - regarded as both a comic and a linguistic _Meisterstück_
- sold like hotcakes at the 1971 Summer Linguistic Institute at SUNY
Buffalo ("LI71") - or at "Buff State," as it was still referred to by the
locals, back then.

That's where Geoff Nathan and I met, BTW. We were next-door neighbors in
the dorm, Goodyear Hall. He claimed that Toronto was pronounced "Tronna" by
its residents, one of whom he purported to be. I didn't quite believe him.
I have since become fully persuaded that Geoff spoke the stone truth.

IAC, as Ike Turner once remarked, "Those were the good old days!"


-- 
-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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