[Ads-l] Lewis Carroll Misquotes

[Andy Bach]

That Guardian link had an “=“ embedded in it (after “head”) - emailer
addition for line length:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2021/mar/01/off-with-their-heads-why-are-lewis-carroll-misquotes-so-common-online


On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 5:38 AM Geoffrey Nathan <geoffnathan at wayne.edu>
wrote:

> Interestingly enough, the article misquotes
> one of the quotes, by omitting a crucial morpheme. In the one about
> being behind. I recall bumper stickers and cute plaques
> to put up in your kitchen or office that actually say
>
> 'The hurrieder I go the behinder I get.'
>
> FWIW
>
> Geoff
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> Geoffrey S. Nathan
> WSU Information Privacy Officer (Retired)
> Emeritus Professor, Linguistics Program
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