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1189 Purething I stand, head bowed, corrected. Now that was the research-based Robert C. Petersen-3/25/1998
1188 Wrong! Wrong! Around the time of Chaucer there was a very famous folk song. ThIntrepid1-3/25/1998
1187 Mitch, Alex and I were talking about year 1500 and blank word. I do not reRobert C. Petersen-3/25/1998
1186 Interesting theory, but WRONG! It is well known that the word BLANK originatedMitch Blevins-3/25/1998
1185 They have a Secret Society or something. And I just stumbled on something Bad. Jacques Chitte-3/25/1998
1184 <i>"...recognizable by the two extra columns on the far right. Very marcos-3/25/1998
1183 Marcos and all, the Silicon Investor acronym for BLANK is "Flynn Upstages Intrepid1-3/25/1998
1182 In 1499, the Church rounded up all the abaci extant, burned'em, and replaceJacques Chitte-3/25/1998
1181 The abacus flew through Year 1500 with no problems Unlike our problems with Y2KRobert C. Petersen-3/25/1998
1180 >What happened in 1503?< Never mind...Jacques Chitte-3/25/1998
1179 Wasn't it also said that in the early days of Scotland Yard it was an acronmarcos-3/25/1998
1178 Penni, Thank you for your research on BLANK and I hope my two cents worth iRobert C. Petersen-3/25/1998
1177 And I think you're absolutely right. But the halo effect kicks in--people hRambi-3/25/1998
1176 Hi, Penni, Perhaps we should post some of this discussion on the Grammar threajbe-3/25/1998
1175 Hi jbe, There is some speculation that BLANK may have derived from the Latin &lRambi-3/25/1998
1174 Ahem! On Poetry and the Word BLANK On trolling this thread, in search of somejbe-3/25/1998
1173 I <i>knew</i> she/he/it was good for something.epicure-3/24/1998
1172 And you post this information right out where anyone can see it? Shame shame Tepicure-3/24/1998
1171 You had me going, I thought the SI spell checker had been altered to find certThe Duke of URL©-3/24/1998
1170 I didn't mean the spellchecker. I meant the search machine.Tommaso-3/24/1998
1169 James and all, I'm not saying James Flynn was a great poet or anything...BuIntrepid1-3/24/1998
1168 << I just used the spell checker and find that at least one naughty word Lazarus_Long-3/24/1998
1167 Yesss. It could be automated. The offending poster gets a little window that saJacques Chitte-3/24/1998
1166 I just used the spell checker and find that at least one naughty word is used aTommaso-3/24/1998
1165 Well, that's where Jane comes in.jhild-3/24/1998
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