transitivity of "expire" (fwd)

[Peter A. McGraw]

Wow--is this list educational or what!  All this time I thought "ex-con"
was a common misspelling of "ex-Can," which would be a North American who
moved south to the U.S.--a counterpart to those "ex-patriots" who moved
north.

--On Wednesday, February 27, 2002 7:49 PM -0500 Laurence Horn
<laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:

> At 4:41 PM -0500 2/27/02, sagehen wrote:
>> " an excaped convict" !!
>> oh, THAT's where we get "ex-con."
>> AM
>
> Actually, it refers to Superman, after he was busted for using his
> X-ray vision for immoral purposes and subsequently imprisoned,
> defrocked and turned into an ex-caped convict.



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                               Peter A. McGraw
                   Linfield College   *   McMinnville, OR
                            pmcgraw at linfield.edu