January 2001 newsletter / "At the printer"

[Thomas Paikeday]

Dear Allan,

I'm just curious. Do you mean your computer printer, like, "The document
is waiting to be printed out" or is it gone to a commercial printer, in
which case the old-fashioned way of putting it would be "at the
printer's (shop)," "gone to the printer," "gone to the printer's," etc.

Just a bit confused, nothing personal or below the belt! Maybe just a
little impish.

I eagerly await my ADS Newsletter by snail mail which is always a
pleasure to read. I don't think I would like the online version so much.

Tom.

AAllan at AOL.COM wrote:
>
> Volume 33 Number 1 of the Newsletter of the American Dialect Society is at
> last finished! It's at the printer and will go by first class mail to ADS
> members next week.
>
>