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Subject: ADS-L Digest - 24 Jul 1997 to 25 Jul 1997
There are 9 messages totalling 284 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

 1. "Privilege" as a Verb (2)
 2. "is is" (formerly "as best as") (3)
 3. ough (3)
 4. ough (fwd)

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Date:  Fri, 25 Jul 1997 10:33:08 -0400
From:  Ron Butters <RonButters[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM>
Subject: Re: "Privilege" as a Verb

Fred Shapiro writes:

>In my previous message about
> _privilege_
>I gave a 1977 usage, but upon
>reflection I see that this may
>simply be the old sense rather
>than the
>Marxist/postmodernist sense.

I'm still troubled about that "Marxist" label--most of the citations that Mr