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Re: CHAT: False friends - echos from the mother tounge

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Wednesday, July 9, 2003, 17:28
Stone Gordonssen scripsit:

> Interesting that this site admits that this falsehood apprears in hundreds > of book on marketing.
Textbooks notoriously copy things from one another, sometimes with distortions. Stephen Jay Gould wrote an article once on the storied comparison of _Hyracotherium_ (aka _Eohippus_), the earliest known horse, to a fox terrier in size. -- John Cowan <jcowan@...> http://www.ccil.org/~cowan http://www.reutershealth.com Charles li reis, nostre emperesdre magnes, Set anz totz pleinz ad ested in Espagnes.