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The Best Word Book Ever, 1963 and 1991. ⇒

   25 November 2005, lunch time

It's interesting to see how the world has changed. The subtle differences between the two versions are quite interesting. This link was found via Metafilter.

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  1. “Just add yellow ribbons” Hahaha. Isn’t that just as sexist as before?

    by martha on November 25 2005, 7:52 pm   #

  2. They did seem to do a pretty half-assed job with that. Some of the changes are a shame though. I liked, “beautiful screaming lady”. Sounds very poetic to me.

    by Ramanan on November 25 2005, 9:13 pm   #

  3. I thought that “beautiful screaming lady” sounded kind of like they had translated the book from japanese. that always seems to give the language an austere sort of quality, i think.

    by Ben on November 25 2005, 11:37 pm   #

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