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|    William Vetter to Jim Hetley    |
|    Re: Linguistic voice woes    |
|    17 Jul 15 11:12:02    |
      From: mdhangton@gmail.com              Jim Hetley wrote:       > On Thursday, July 16, 2015 at 1:28:22 PM UTC-4, William Vetter wrote:       >>       >> It can be abbreviation for Fahrenheit.       >       > I think that's stretching. Not capitalized, and the common abbreviation for       > Fahrenheit is simply F.       >       > There is nothing that cannot be misunderstood or misconstrued. Or quibbled.       >       > Jim              If "fahr" appeared once in a 4000 word short story with no other alt       spellings (which is what I recall), I would still have thought it was       fire spelled wrong.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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