From: Maurice A. O'Sullivan (mauros@iol.ie)
Date: Sun Mar 05 2000 - 16:34:29 EST
<x-flowed>At 19:42 05/03/00, Carlton Winbery wrote:
>Here we see the very interesting occurance of "swappance" in modern
>English. *Perhaps* becomes *Perphas* by this process which is sorta like
>swapping the castle with the queen in chess.
Carlton:
Wasn't it Steinitz who said "All the mistakes are waiting to be made"?
He might well have added "on mailing-lists as well as chessboards" <g>
Regards
Maurice
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