Prurience?

A. Maberry maberry at U.WASHINGTON.EDU
Wed Sep 27 04:08:03 UTC 2000


On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Bill Smith wrote:
>
> I was going to suggest that you reply to me personally, but, given the
> prurience of this list, you may want to reply to everyone.

I must say that I take exception to this. The Amaerican Dialect Society
list, by my understanding, deals with American speech, and as such is no
more prurient than than American speech itself--unless of course, you are
using it in Taylor's sense as quoted in the OED, "An irresistible
prurience asking for the marvelous."

allen
maberry at u.washington.edu



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