and more vocab: HELL DRAWER

Mark A. Mandel Mark_Mandel at DRAGONSYS.COM
Thu Oct 5 21:24:03 UTC 2000


I sent Barry's line to a friend, who passed it on to a friend of hers, who
is a librarian. Back along the return route comes this:

>>>>>
And of course you know that "l'enfer" is the bibliographic term regarding
the place (sometimes a drawer) where suspect books are kept in a library.
<<<<<

-- Dr. Whom: Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist,
   and Philological Busybody
   a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel



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