Thread: Why use "the" before "wrong number"?
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Old 01-Jul-2004, 21:05
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It's the wrong number because it is mine and I am only interested in that one number. You could call ten thousand wrong numbers and I wouldn't care or know, but if you disturb me, then it matters. ;-0
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