"To whit ..."

[Wilson Gray]

Other examples can be found through the tedium of combing through the
combined "to wit, to whit, to Whit" section in Google.

-Wilson

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Arnold M. Zwicky
<zwicky at csli.stanford.edu> wrote:
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> On May 26, 2008, at 9:34 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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>> "... I am skeptical of any tool that promises an escape from the
>> consumer-explotation juggernaut. _To whit_ ..."
>>
>> Three Google hits...
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> i couldn't find "to whit" on the Tolstoy site, and the third hit has
> the proper name "Whit" (short for "Whitley").
>
> it looks like a very rare mis-spelling.
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> arnold
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