Posted by Jock on April 17, 2007 at 15:31:12 from 87.105.81.146 user Jock.
In Reply to: Re: John galumphs twice posted by Peter Hyland on April 17, 2007 at 12:31:18:
one would expect a writer of AR's ability to foresee that readers might regard it as a mistaken repetition
Peter, you have a good point and you may very well be right. But the other possibility - deliberate repetition of a very similar phrase also works for me.