:-) from = for, of.

[Charles Doyle]

Would that Google Books employed some such designation! There, regularly, is snippetly quoted a different edition (if not a different author and title!) from the one cited.

--Charlie



---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:43:18 -0500
>From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> (on behalf of Barbara Need <bhneed at GMAIL.COM>)
>
>Actually, it does. If you click on the link it takes you to the page for another paperback edition of the translation.
>
>Barbara
>Barbara Need
>Chicago
>
>On 26 Oct 2009, at 4:28 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>
>> It doesn't.
>>
>> http://www.amazon.com/Beowulf-Signet-Classics-Old-English/dp/0451527402/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
>>
>> Scroll down about a third of the way to the beginning of the "Customer Reviews."
>>
>> JL
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Barbara Need <bhneed at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I have been wondering if this means something like a review found on the page "Beowulf (Mentor) (Paperback)". Any thoughts?
>>>
>>>>>> Amazon.com heads some pages of customer reviews like this:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "This review is from: Beowulf (Mentor) (Paperback)"
>>>
>>> Barbara
>>>
>>> Barbara Need
>>> Chicago

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