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From: mac@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Alex Colvin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: "big endian" and "little endian"
Summary: IE numbers
Message-ID: <2942@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU>
Date: 25 Jan 89 21:46:05 GMT
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> "four and twenty blackbirds" was a MARKED construction

What about seventeen (seven-ten)?  These are marked because they're
petrified.  But it looks like this used to be the norm.