Re: OT: interestin' factoids (mostly language-related)

Am 08/07 21:08  Yoon Ha Lee yscrifef:
> On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, John Cowan wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> >
> > > I thought that was Victor Hugo, for _Les Misérables_.  Or did I misremember?
> >
> > The story is told of Victor Hugo, but also of George Bernard Shaw.
> > So I left it anonymous.
>
> Didn't know of that one.  Thanks for the info.  I remember that of some
> British childrens' 1001 facts book or suchlike, read back in elementary
> school...I suppose it wasn't necessarily too accurate!
>
One edition of the Guiness Book of Records attributed it to Victor Hugo.

- andrew.
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