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SKB messages: yet another attempt
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on 30/7/06 11:11 PM, Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
wrote:
>> The quantity of Scottish blood in my veins greatly
>> exceeding that of Slavic, presumed therefore that
>> Scots spelling exceeded Slavic in correctness .
>>
>> Or, as chess players might say, "Czeck"
>>
>> John
VN might have enjoyed the cartoon of the Cockney chess player: "I said
Check, mite, not Check mite, mite" skb
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