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From: qacr@oce-rd1.UUCP (Alistair Crooks)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: "Data points"/English speaked here.
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Date: Mon, 26-Aug-85 15:26:26 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 26 15:26:26 1985
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In article 607, Jeff Lichtman(jeff@rtech.UUCP) writes...

>	It is quite common in English to use nouns as adjectives:
                              ^^^^^^^
>		automobile tire
>		...
>		ice chest

Very humourous [sic], Jeff. Don't harbour any grudges, though.
English in America is alive and swell, eh?
-- 
Alistair G. Crooks
BSO Eindhoven/Oce Nederland b.v.
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