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Enrico C: Adrian Bailey: That's because you forgot to use "allintext:" (or equivalently, to specify "in the text of the page" via the advanced search form). You were getting pages containing "cliche" that were *linked to* from pages contaning...

"Skitt" (Email Removed) wrote... Serpently not; it behoves one to be master of one's spelling checker if one is to write malaproperly at all times. I've granted myself a degree of mattistic licence. Matti

I obsess -- were you, perhaps, the victim of a spelling checker? -- Skitt (in Hayward, California) www.geocities.com/opus731/

An alternative (more common) English spelling of my name is "Enda". This spelling is phonetic. There are a number of other Enda O'Callaghan's who've left traces in the Internet - not all of them related to me. Regards, Einde O'Callaghan

Maj, I am really (not) offended by that!! We are not ALL preoccupied with XX - only half of us, and if we weren't the world would be a very different place!!! (without people perhaps) VIVA LE DIFFERANCE!!! (SORRY ABOUT THE fRENCH SPELLING 0- i HOPE IT DOESN'T OFFEND TOO MUCH) aCTUALLY I like...

Because it is, er, a cliche. -- Charles Riggs Email address: chriggs¦at¦eircom¦dot¦net

I'm not claiming that it's new. So is a cliché just a phrase that's been around a long time? Matti

"I wouldn't touch that with a ten-foot pole" is definitely a cliche in the US. I believe this thread has said that the British equivalent is "I wouldn't touch that with a barge-pole." (However that last may be spelled -- open, closed, or hyphenated?) -- Best -- Donna...

No -- that was my spellchecker keeping me sufficiently foreign. I was wondering why Bob described the phrase "a ten-foot pole" as a cliche. Matti

Are you asking about the accent? M-W gives "cliche" as a variant spelling of "cliché". They don't date variants. -- Best -- Donna Richoux