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From: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: A pole apart
Message-ID: <1874@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 30-Mar-85 09:34:47 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 30 09:34:47 1985
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Reply-To: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold)
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Summary: 

(In response to a piece of mail whose address I can't figure out
well enough to respond to privately.  Then again, if one netter couldn't
figure this out, there may be more.)

The student's "I am a pole apart from him" was probably derived from the
idiom "he and I are poles apart" (meaning their positions differ as much
as the North and South Poles).

Maybe we could start a discussion on interesting typos.  I once had a
student write that NYC had many "skycrappers."  I got cured of submitting
non-proofread papers myself by once referring to a "Pee ing Tom."  My
professor circled the phrase, drew a line out to the margin, and wrote
(plaintively) "Please!"

--Lee Gold