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Subject: Re: Literacy was: smail pronounciation
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Date: Mon, 2-Mar-87 18:35:53 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  2 18:35:53 1987
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Summary: sorry, Terry, English is alive!

In article <1528@whuts.UUCP>, tes@whuts.UUCP (STERKEL) writes:
> > That's because it *is* a tilde!
> one of my pet peeves is the perversion of standard English ...
peace, it's one of mine, too, but society comprises folks, who will talk...
> /           virgule (not slash)
                                  oh... you mean a slant, guv!
> ...         ellipses (not dots)
                                  shouldn't that be ellipsis? 
> '           apostrophe (not accent)
                                  now that I do know: it's a tick.
> !           exclamation point (not bang)
      seriously now, do you expect me to use five syllables where one will do?