[Ads-l] another entry for the "and <<>>in/en" files ("case and point")

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Mon Feb 22 05:53:37 UTC 2016


On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 10:27 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> puss in boots


Isn't "Puss in Boots" the tale of a cat that wears boots?

Puss in Boots
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puss_in_Boots
"Master Cat; or, The Booted Cat" (Italian: Il gatto con gli stivali;
French: Le Maitre chat ou le Chat botte'), commonly known in English as
"Puss in Boots"...
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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