“I am nothing but a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man.”
Volume II [Tauchnitz,
Source: The Woman in White (1859)
“In Norway, we have a community of people who prefer to use a version of Norwegian that looks very much like lutefisk: Dug up remains from the garbage heap of history and dressed up to look like a tradition.”
On nynorsk, from Re: Irish road-signs are now metric http://groups.google.com/group/misc.metric-system/msg/aaa11856a516419a (Usenet article).
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