Re: 3Add2 & 3Contractions2 Grammar Checker Problem

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From: Andreas Prilop (nhtcapri_at_rrzn-user.uni-hannover.de)
Date: 12/07/04 

Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 17:54:20 +0100

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Daiya Mitchell wrote:

> What is peculiarly "Belgian" about exponents instead of quotation marks?

This particular mapping ISO-8859-1 <-> MacRoman was invented by
a Belgian, Monsieur André Pirard. Read more at
 <http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/iso8859/iso8859-mac.html>

See some results here:
 <http://www.alltheweb.com/search?q=it1s&_sb_lang=any>
 <http://www.altavista.com/web/results?q=it1s&kgs=0&kls=0>
Note the superscript 1 in the word "it1s" instead of an
apostrophe. 

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