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From: lilandbr@scn.org (Leland Bryant Ross)
Subject: Re: "Of" becoming "for" in US English
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En sia .sig-o, whuang@ugcs.caltech.edu (Wei-Hwa Huang) skribis:

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>Why are they called "digital" watches?  They're obviously carpal, not digital.
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Maybe they were designed with a much larger animal in mind.
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