Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ross Clark Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: All Fools' Day (1 April) Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2024 22:58:25 +1300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 5 Message-ID: Reply-To: r.clark@auckland.ac.nz MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2024 09:58:32 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="35ec3cb8fab2c4fdefabc59b7924d495"; logging-data="4054494"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19Y5nZjy4umSa3niTl36sAyTI2UvlN/sQQ=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:ssluDCX0DfKXjFsJZQ7HSk/AZlc= Content-Language: en-GB X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://news.eternal-september.org:119 Bytes: 1226 Crystal has a couple of examples of linguistic April Fooleries, which are too laborious to repeat. I didn't do any, or even read about any. How about youse?