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From: das@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: A whole nother story
Message-ID: <4610@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 1-Apr-85 21:59:32 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr  1 21:59:32 1985
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Reply-To: das@ucla-cs.UUCP (David Smallberg)
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
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Summary: 

Well, I checked Fowler last night, and my memory was incorrect -- he defines
tmesis specifically as an insertion into a compound word (as in
"hoo-bloody-ray" (which is one answer to my question of what other naughty
words participate in tmeses)).

-- David Smallberg, das@ucla-cs.ARPA, {ihnp4,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!das