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To: Achilles who wrote (991)	4/1/1998 12:30:00 AM
From: Chuzzlewit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4711

Claude, that's why I think the third edition of Fowlers' is defeatest and should not bear the name Fowlers'. My guess is that it was really written by someone else. <VBG!!> I love that book. It is so deliciously pretentious that it's hard to read without laughing out loud. Here's one of my favorite quotes: "The termination -cracy is now so freely applied that it is too late to complain of this except on the ground of ugliness. It may be pointed out, however, that the very special ugliness of bureaucracy is due to the way its mongrel origin is flaunted in our faces with the tell tale syllable -eau-; it is hoped that formations similar in this respect may be avoided." Regards, Paul