[BITList] Words

HUGH chakdara at btinternet.com
Sun Oct 31 08:29:53 GMT 2010


Frank,

I had already noticed that about "illegal immigrants".  In the US it's an anagram of "illegals", though I recall it used to be the phrase you quoted with Mexicans inserted ad lib.   Did they invade Mexico?  I can't recall that far back - maybe they did.

While on anagrams, "twelve plus one" is an anagram of "eleven plus two".  This comes of reading Colin Dexter's books about Inspector Morse.

Hugh.
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