Re: [ADS-L] "Slights of hand"

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

Isn't it a one-horse open sleight?

In a message dated 5/8/09 3:21:47 PM, hwgray at GMAIL.COM writes:


> "I always thought it was "sleight".
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> I, too. "_Sleights_ of hand" seems okay, though.
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> -Wilson
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> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > Poster:    "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
> > Subject:   "Slights of hand"
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> > In this week's on-line report from an investment advisory newsletter
> > I subscribe to:
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> > 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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