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To: antidisestablishment

Very gracious of you. The Mr. “Yaw”, to whom Mr. Edwards was “responding”, was George Bernard Shaw, who had suggested some modest reforms to English orthography. I am inordinately fond of modest proposals.


181 posted on 12/25/2016 9:21:11 PM PST by NicknamedBob (If you can't do something well, you won't do anything good.)
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To: NicknamedBob

Being Irish, I’m fond of modest proposals, myself.


182 posted on 12/25/2016 9:39:41 PM PST by antidisestablishment ( We few, we happy few, we basket of deplorables)
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