On 9/5/08 10:52 AM, in article #wRSH8WsIHA.4840@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Jeff
Wiseman" <throwawayacct223@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Clive Huggan wrote:
>> Yep, it's a dictionary, not a novel. ;-)
>>
>> (And the many electronic cross-references in it make it even more so.)
>>
>> Clive Huggan
>> ============
>
>
> Well, It's the only Dictionary that I'VE ever read cover to cover!
>
> (but then I'm weird that way--don't want to miss any of the good
> parts :-)
>
Golly gosh, Jeff! I think you must be one of a kind!!! *I* haven't read
it
right through since it grew beyond about 50 pages.
As I think about this, I start to cringe. *You* are the one who has seen
the inconsistencies, the results of creeping incrementalism in the Styles
section, the ... but no, why am I confessing in public? A crate of best
Aussie bubbly will swing your way if only you keep quiet about it! ;-)
Cheers,
Clive
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