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To: rightwingintelligentsia; Xenalyte; dighton; Tax-chick

I think that should be “may have shown.”


29 posted on 04/21/2007 11:49:40 AM PDT by Petronski (FRED!)
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To: Petronski

You are correct!

More to the point, what kind of headline is “may have”? Either he did, or he didn’t!


36 posted on 04/21/2007 12:05:59 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("And he had turned the Prime Minister's teacup into a gerbil.")
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To: Petronski; rightwingintelligentsia
According to the Second Edition of Fowler, “For the p.p. shown has ousted the variant showed.
41 posted on 04/21/2007 12:18:48 PM PDT by dighton
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