tenant = 'tenor'; archive = 'to achieve'

[Jonathan Lighter]

This should work:

 http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa

JL
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Baker, John <JMB at stradley.com> wrote:

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>        I would guess that "tenant" here is a misspelling of "tenet,"
> though "tenor" or "gist" is likely closer to the intended meaning.  The
> limitations of spellcheck strike again.
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>        The link does not work for me.
>
>
> John Baker
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> From the _First World War Poetry Digital Archive_, an extensive
> collection
> of sites and stuff "highly commended at the Times Higher Educational
> Awards
> 2008 for 'Outstanding ICT Initiative'" and "copyrighted by the
> University of
> Oxford"
> [http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa]<http://mail.google.com/mail/[http:
> //www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa]>
> :
>
>
> "The whole tenant of the article can be summed up as 'What the Germans
> had
> failed to achieve in 100 days at Verdun in comparison to what British
> had
> archived by the 8th October at The Somme'. Consequently the article
> makes
> exaggerated claims for any success and downplays any failures."
> AFAICT, this was written by the anonymous editor rather than a member of
> the
> general public.
>
>
> JL
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