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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=000374721-15042005>Other
quasi-synonyms are: "great" and "grand". A "big man" differs in nuance from a
"great man" and </SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=000374721-15042005>a "grand
(old) man."</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=000374721-15042005>Fritz
Goerling</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2>K<SPAN class=000374721-15042005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3>enneth Hill
wrote: </FONT></SPAN><BR></DIV></FONT></FONT>
<BLOCKQUOTE><TT>While 'big' and 'large' are synonomous in the usual sense that
they<BR>seriously overlap in meaning, they certainly mean different things in
some<BR>contexts. Remember the movie 'Little Big Man'? 'Little Large Man'
would be<BR>weird. A 'big man' can be a physically large man, but also, unlike
'large<BR>man', can be an important man or a man of moral force. Napoleon and
Gandhi<BR>were big men who were physically small. They were not large men
even<BR>though they loom large in history.<BR><BR></TT></BLOCKQUOTE><!-- |**|end egp html banner|**| -->
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