Spit, spat, spitten

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Thu Feb 1 00:47:53 UTC 2001


At 9:59 PM -0600 1/31/01, Donald M. Lance wrote:
>Wouldn't "spitten image" be like "graven image"...

As in the anti-cloning commandment "Thou shalt make no spitten
images."  So I argued at the last ADS meeting in D.C.  Watch for an
article in (or at least submission to) Am. Sp. in the foreseeable
future.

larry



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