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<div>At 2:36 PM -0400 9/28/00, Sallie Lemons wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Well, I guess we all<i> botched</i> that
one...something I do regularly. But what do I know. I live in NY and
I am not a linguist.<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Allison Hall wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>I found it very curious that no one on
this list has heard of the word<br>
"botch," for I use it all the time. I can't offer any
information on the<br>
origin of the word, but I and everyone I've heard use the word have
used it<br>
to mean "to foul up," "to screw up," or "to
make a really big mistake." In<br>
gymnastics, I used it quite often if I completely did a routine
incorrectly:<br>
Wow, did I just botch that one!</blockquote>
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<div>Excuse me--did anyone (much less everyone) on the list claim
that they were unfamiliar with the verb "botch"? I
must have missed those postings. I believe it was the origin of
the word that was in doubt, not its existence or meaning.</div>
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<div>larry</div>
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