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Re: OT: "kluge"/"kludge"

From:Nokta Kanto <red5_2@...>
Date:Saturday, May 10, 2003, 7:04
This is interesting. I thought kluge, kludge were just variant spellings;
turns out they have two different etymologies. I wonder if there are many
other cases of two different words evolving into one. It seems to violate
the laws of thermodynamics.

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John Cowan <cowan@...>