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Patricia Chambers <[log in to unmask]>
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Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 30 Dec 1998 19:06:45 -0600
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PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE ME>  I DONT WANT TO BE ON THIS LISTSERVED

Ito kazumasa wrote:

> Dear listers,
>  I appreciate your kindness and generosity.
> Thank you. Yes, it seems I have been tricked by the writer of this question.
> Now my big headache has gone way. Today, I've found in UK magazine article a
> line which goes,"Five years ago Intel definitely, absolutely, didn't start
> selling PCs in competition with IBM and Compaq." So, these two adverbs mean
> almost the same thing!
>  As to "Cheshire cat", AltaVista gave me a different origin of it. It says
> there was a man named Cheshire Catering who was always grinning, and as time
> went by, Catering was shortened and became Cat.  It's an interesting
> anecdote, though I'm not sure about its authenticity.
>  Thank you once again listers and I hope y'all have wonderful New Year's
> holdays.
>
> Kazumasa Ito
> Sapporo, Japan

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