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Yes, I got the same spam in my bloggy email inbox.




Yep, me too. I replied that I would consider it if
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you can answer the concern about the quality of scholarship in your book, concerns raised at http://www.languagehat.com/archives/002105.php and
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002500.html




His less than convincing reply (which I was surprised to receive at all) was:

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I do not claim to be above criticism and may be some of it is fair but I cn assure you my sources were as authoritative as one can imagine and what is printed in a large dictionary can sometimes vary from people's usage I hope this quell's any fears you have


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