"Slights of hand"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 5/8/2009 04:31 PM, RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:

>Isn't it a one-horse open sleight?

Of course!  Proven by the fact that I've always pronounced it "slay of hand".

Joel


>In a message dated 5/8/09 3:21:47 PM, hwgray at GMAIL.COM writes:
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> > "I always thought it was "sleight".
> >
> > I, too. "_Sleights_ of hand" seems okay, though.
> >
> > -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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> > > 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.
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