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Letter: 'p ubbliqs pea king

Published 14 January 1995

From A.D. Ryder

Another example of a phrase which the reader-aloud may not make sense of, though his hearers do (Letters, 19 November), is given in Text Book of Psychology by William James, published about 1902: Pas de lieu Rhône que nous.

As a curiosity it is more elegant, consisting only of quite common real French words.

Issue no. 1960 published 14 January 1995

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