End of ADS-L Digest - 20 Feb 1995 to 22 Feb 1995 ************************************************ There are 22 messages totalling 451 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. DARE Queries in NADS 27.1 (5) 2. "different than" (5) 3. "little" 4. different than 5. Romance Plurals (2) 6. "Different than" 7. Software for teaching copy editing? 8. buck and a half (3) 9. Little DARE queries 10. Delays 11. ne/mla ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 09:11:19 -0500 From: Ellen Johnson Subject: Re: DARE Queries in NADS 27.1 LITTLE In my family, this has led to an odd situation: my cousin (about my age and size, 30-something, 5'7" or so) is Little Ruth and my grandmother (a shrunken-up nonogenarian (sp?) who is barely 5 feet) is Big Ruth. The titles are only added if we need to disambiguate. Ellen Johnson ellenj[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]atlas.uga.edu