thy thigh etc.

petegray petegray at btinternet.com
Tue Jun 26 19:32:28 UTC 2001


>"all-bite" .... the pretentiousness of Times journalists
> (more justifiably, perhaps).

The word is not pretentious at all in the educated speech of those I work
with (or in my own).  I guess its "death and resurrection" is a phenomenon
not shared by all the English speaking world.

Peter



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