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Three more medical misapprehensions (I learned about these from a colleague from years ago who had a boyfriend who was a doctor in a research hospital):
"precious pills" --> blood pressure pills
Texas Cyclone --> tetracycline (the hosp. was in Houston)
spiral mini-Jesus --> spinal meningitis
Now, what that last one says about the speaker's religious worldview is a mystery....
Bill Spruiell
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From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Geoffrey Layton
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Subject: Re: Creative excuses
Who says we never talk about anything of general interest?
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>I believe the appropriate term from syntactic theory is "small clauses."
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>Herb
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>One of my students pointed out the Santa Claus's elves are subordinate
>clauses.
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>Peter Adams
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