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Joe Fineman  
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 More options Oct 14 2012, 11:46 am
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From: Joe Fineman <jo...@verizon.net>
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 11:45:02 -0400
Local: Sun, Oct 14 2012 11:45 am
Subject: Re: How come they say aided AND abetted?
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bozo <Bozo_De_N...@37.com> writes:
> I mean is there a big difference or is this just redundant
> alliteration?

In my book (and the AHD), aid means help, and abet means urge.  One
may do either without the other.
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---  Joe Fineman    jo...@verizon.net

||:  First you find out that there is no Santa Claus, then that  :||
||:  there is no God, and then that there are no grownups.       :||


 
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