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Re: footnote placement



Peter Evans wrote:
> Irrelevant PS #1: This Brit learnt somewhere that the excellent word
> "fortnight" was a quaint Briticism that Americans would find
> incomprehensible or amusing; but I see it more and more these days.

  It can't be all that unknown -- it's in fairly common usage in the
legal code, at least in Minnesota.

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