" to shod " !!

[Wilson Gray]

It means "To runners who are shod, ... " = "To runners who have shoes
on, ... " right? What's wrong with that? That's *nothing* like

"As he quietly and carefully _trodded_ the almost-unseen trail, he was
alert to the possibility of booby-traps."

-Wlison


On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Alison Murie<sagehen7470 at att.net> wrote:
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>  From an NYT article  in the Health section:
> "To shod runners, the idea of running without a shoe sounds impossible."
> This one makes me grit my teeth, but probably someone will find that
> it has become a common usage.
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