Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 16:59:50 -0500

From: Mark Mandel Mark[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]DRAGONSYS.COM

Subject: recipe. -Reply



Ellen Johnson Ellen.Johnson[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]INETGW.WKU.EDU 10/21/96, 04:36pm



I was just informed by someone on another list that the cookie story

was an urban legend that has been circulating for years (and of

course has been refuted by N-M). But they said the cookies were

great!





(Grumble.) _Amer.Her._ says "refute" can mean "rebut", but I'd rather

preserve the distinction between PROVING it ain't so and just SAYING

it ain't so.



-- Dr. Whom: Consulting Linguist, Grammarian,

Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody



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