My misspelling of overweening (with -ea-)

[Gerald Cohen]

Yes, it's spelled "overweening".  My bad.

Gerald Cohen


>At 7:27 PM -0500 1/16/03, Mark A Mandel wrote:
>Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 19:27:13 -0500
>From: Mark A Mandel <mam at theworld.com>
>To: Gerald Cohen <gcohen at umr.edu>
>Subject: Re: [ADS-L] "Big Apple", "Big Onion" (and "shyster")
>
>(off-list nit-pick)
>
>On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Gerald Cohen wrote:
>
>[An excellent letter, compromising neither scholarship nor civility]
>
>#argued actually means "overweaning big shot."  It no more means NYC
>
>Isn't that usually spelled "overw<ee>ning"?
>
>-- Mark A. Mandel