Fwd: feignt of heart

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Elizabeth Zwicky <zwicky at greatcircle.com>
> Date: September 18, 2007 2:54:23 PM PDT
> To: "Arnold M. Zwicky" <zwicky at csli.stanford.edu>
> Subject: feignt of heart
>
> check it out!  "feint of heart" is common but there are 526 hits
> for the completely bizarroid "feignt of heart".

"feint" for "faint" is in Brians.  and was mentioned by mark liberman
on Language Log:
   http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000993.html

"feignt" seems to put the verb "feign" in the picture.

when i did a google search on "feignt of heart", i was asked if i
meant "feint of heart".  searching on "feint of heart" gets no query.

arnold

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