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December 21st, 2006 at 7:34 pm
It’s “hie”, BA, not “high”.
December 22nd, 2006 at 12:00 am
Dang spellchecker!
December 22nd, 2006 at 9:28 am
You need the Victorian Plug-in for Spellchecking that sort of thing…
December 22nd, 2006 at 8:36 pm
Well, high is spelled entirely correctly… just not for what you’re wanting here.
Shawn – yeah, that’s what I get for being a fan of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature. I’ve got all sorts of weird vocabulary. (That was NOT FUN on the GRE either, I kept finding alternate definitions that weren’t provided for.)
December 23rd, 2006 at 12:07 am
Thanks, BA. Every day should be Sagan day.