(neither) nor

[Jonathan Lighter]

But don't Fitzgerald's "nors" mean "and not" rather than "but not"?

Should that make a difference?

JL

Gerald Cohen <gcohen at UMR.EDU> wrote: ---------------------- Information from the mail header -----------------------
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Maybe the following well-known quote from The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam is
relevant here (although it has "nor" three times):

"The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, / Moves on: nor all thy Piety
nor Wit / Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, / Nor all thy Tears wash
out a Word of it."

Gerald Cohen

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