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Re: plurals etc


Harry Binswanger wrote:

> >Or in weird words, like "weird"!
>
> We also have to seize some counterfeit words of French origin.
>

Ah yes. I can still hear my ninth-grade English teacher, Ms. Dill,
cueing us up to recite the "three fit" words as she called them. Forfeit
and surfeit being the other two.

>
> Harry Binswanger
> hb@xxxxxxxx

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