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Re: CHAT: The [+foreign] attribute

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Thursday, September 5, 2002, 9:48
Philip Newton scripsit:


> * ekset[e]ra

And "asterik", though "obelisk" is generally pronounced correctly
among those who don't say "dagger".

I remember a rather odd poem which contained the written line
"* his hide", to be read "asked to risk his hide".

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