[Ads-l] "unforced error"

[Wilson Gray]

On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 7:41 AM, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I doubt it was just "made up".


My reference was to the _dating_ of the term's origin, not to the claim of
its provenance. I'd forgotten that contributors to the UD supply fake
etymologies as well as false dates.

I regret the misunderstanding.


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-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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