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    On 2019 Sep 18 14:14:22, you wrote to All:   
      
    AK> Reading a novel "The standard of living", by Dorothy Parker, I read this:   
      
    AK> -----Beginning of the citation-----   
    AK> Annabel and Midge had been best friends almost from the day that Midge   
    AK> had found a job as stenographer with the firm that employed Annabel.   
    AK> ----- The end of the citation -----   
      
    AK> How can I explain to my conscience the absence of "a" before   
    AK> "stenographer"? ;)   
      
   in this case, i suspect that stenographer is a title... it is also a position   
   which an "a" would indicate... adding the "a" would also seem to indicate   
   there is more than one stenographer...   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
   Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would   
   set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.   
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