"Slights of hand"
Joel S. Berson
Berson at ATT.NET
Fri May 8 01:24:47 UTC 2009
In this week's on-line report from an investment advisory newsletter
I subscribe to:
Magic Tricks
Slights of hand, misdirection, pulling sound bites out of hats ...
I always thought it was "sleight". But the OED has 15 quotations
with "slight" (37 with "sleight"). Most (I guess 10) are from the
pre-standardized-spelling early 18th century -- but the most-recent
is 1857--1892.
Joel
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