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Re: Love-Hounds digest V12 #22

From: "Forward, Jonathan" <JForward@sitgbsd1.telecom.com.au>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 96 10:09:00 EST
Subject: Re: Love-Hounds digest V12 #22
To: "rec.music.gaffa" <love-hounds@gryphon.com>
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  >  Date: Wednesday, 24 January 1996 4:31AM
  >
  >  Oddly, the oft-puzzled-over use of the word "worst" in "Babooshka"
  >  (instead of the "correct" worse, in the line "She couldn't have
  >  made a worse move") is an example of such a slip which Kate must
  >  have decided was after all preferable to the original (which can
  >  be confirmed as "worse" in the two demo recordings of the song,
  >  available on bootlegs).
  >
  >  -- Andrew Marvick

 Perhaps she changed it to "She couldn't have made her worst move", and
 sings the word "her" with an indistinctly aspirated "h".

TSB