"last stitch effort"

[Baker, John]

        In Webster's Collegiate, American Heritage, Century Dictionary . . . . What's wrong with assumably?

John Baker


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Subject: Re: "last stitch effort"


Brace yourself.  Within the past year or so I've also seen "assumably."
JL