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Malcolm writes:
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| Which is why I doubt that Murton said it.
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| Well, you're wrong.

It is possible. However, of the couple of dozen times I have checked
up on your claims, in over 3/4 of the cases you have misquoted. I do not
know why, but it is irrelevant - all it means is that I am not prepared
to take your word for it when you say that "X says Y".

| I got caught before by Dr O
| misquoting Stace, and maligned Stace by assuming that Dr O's quote was
| correct.
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| I did not misquote Stace. My quote was 100% word-for-word correct, as a
| comparison between my post and the book will confirm. Your memory is at
| fault. Please apologise.

I was not referring to that case, but to a much earlier one - actually,
if I recall, more than one. I shall bother asking you to apologise.

| What you did was to malign Stace because you didn't bother to find out
| by contacting him, as I did, exactly what he meant by the terminology he
| used. When I posted what Stace had said to me, you thanked me.

I did not malign him in that case. I said that his usage was either an
error or he had used a new and bizarre definition of the word "native".
It turned out to be the latter.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.