From: utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!dan Newsgroups: net.nlang Title: another anecdote Article-I.D.: pur-ee.463 Posted: Tue Jul 27 16:09:58 1982 Received: Mon Aug 2 04:04:17 1982 I took a statistics class which was taught by a professor from Germany. His accent was not extremely heavy, but he did mispronounce a few words such that they sounded like other English words. The most remarkable of these was the word height. To exemplify, let me quote a something he said one day, "This is a plot of the hate of the fathers plotted against the hate of their sons." Dan Ulrich pur-ee!dan