12-30-2004, 09:00 AM
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News came out of the blue
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And a right guid willie waught to you, too, pal
We like the incantations we recite on ritual occasions to be linguistically opaque, from the unparsable "Star-Spangled Banner" (not many people can tell you what the object of watch is in the first verse) to the Pledge of Allegiance, with...
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/langu...es/001767.html
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