While scanning in the text of Jhereg (yes, Steven knew I was doing this before he read this message) I noticed a certain amusing and I'm sure intentional variablity in the spelling of "hmmm", having to do with the number of m's present. Then today I stumbled across a link to this paper investigating a closely related phenomenon on the web, and I just can't resist sharing. http://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/whee/index.html#rothman00 -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / New TMDA anti-spam in test John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ New Dragaera mailing list, see http://dragaera.info