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To: anymouse

I dislike sloppy writing. Of course, the author means "what is now Spain and France."


5 posted on 02/19/2006 9:13:25 PM PST by Ruth A. (we might as well fight in the first ditch as the last)
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To: Ruth A.

IIRC, these people left there before the modern French had reached what is now France and made surrender into an art form.


21 posted on 02/19/2006 9:35:57 PM PST by JohnBovenmyer
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To: Ruth A.
I dislike sloppy writing. Of course, the author means "what is now Spain and France."

I do too. I'll point out two other things that bug me. The author refers to ice flows which should be floes and uses may instead of might in the title.

66 posted on 02/20/2006 3:35:46 AM PST by OldEagle (May you live long enough to hear the legends of your own adventures.)
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