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Old 09-30-2003, 11:59 PM   #19
Man of the Old Hope
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By the way, Sharkû, thanks for the citation!

I missed it for writing my rather prolix post while yours was going up.

You made the point, more canonically and with more information packed in fewer words, than I did! (Good point especially about the influence of Latin on our perception of the gender of names.)
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