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

From:Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
Date:Tuesday, August 8, 2000, 1:08
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! Yoon Ha Lee