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&gt; 
&gt; then you can be reasonably certain that your informant is
&gt; a native speaker of ST, coming to GT as a second language.
&gt; 
&gt; Many diverting tales there are to be told
&gt; about the contretemps that are occasioned
&gt; between these two regionalities of not so
&gt; well-tempered-or-timbred theorem-o-phones,
&gt; but Shirazad has taught me to split while
&gt; the splitting is good.
&gt; 
&gt; More, Later,
&gt; 
&gt; Jon Awbrey
&gt; 
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