Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sdcrdcf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!barryg From: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold) Newsgroups: net.flame,net.nlang Subject: Re: A whole nother story Message-ID: <1857@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Date: Sun, 24-Mar-85 00:42:47 EST Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.1857 Posted: Sun Mar 24 00:42:47 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 25-Mar-85 02:29:19 EST References: <515@ima.UUCP> <492@cadovax.UUCP> Reply-To: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold) Organization: System Development Corp. R+D, Santa Monica Lines: 9 Xref: watmath net.flame:8950 net.nlang:2762 Summary: Back when I taught Exposition at UCLA I ran into a number of students who used the transition "anotherwards." Upon interrogation, it turned out that they had heard the phrase "in other words," deciphered it incorrectly, and... Another instance of misheard idiom resulted in "I am a pole apart from him." --Lee Gold