[Ads-l] "defecto"

[George Thompson]

>From a message to SABR-L, which circulates among baseball enthusiasts:
"there was chatter in the St. Louis papers as the season started that Edman
was the defecto backup to DeJong at shortstop"

The message as a whole was marked by the absence of frivolity, so I think
this was not a joke.

GAT

-- 
George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998.

But when aroused at the Trump of Doom / Ye shall start, bold kings, from
your lowly tomb. . .
L. H. Sigourney, "Burial of Mazeen", Poems.  Boston, 1827, p. 112

The Trump of Doom -- also known as The Dunghill Toadstool.  (Here's a
picture of his great-grandfather.)
http://www.parliament.uk/worksofart/artwork/james-gillray/an-excrescence---a-fungus-alias-a-toadstool-upon-a-dunghill/3851

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org