Nipply
Barnhart
ADS-L at HIGHLANDS.COM
Wed Mar 20 11:16:24 UTC 2002
preston at PILOT.MSU.EDU,Net writes:
>>I have "bit" as a later-life learned alternative for "tad" (It's a
>>bit/tad cold out today") But I have "tid-bit" referrring only to
>>tasty morsels (and metaphoric extensions thereof). I don't have
>>"tid-bit" as an alternative to "tad, bit." Have I missed something
>>(again)?
Dear Dennis (and others following the thread),
Your situation seems to approximate my feeling about myown habits
except that _tad_ is my "later-life" alternative to _bit_, I think.
Regards,
David
barnhart at highlands.com
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