Loosening a "fixed expression"

[Mark Mandel]

And the trio of bats in Walt Kelly's "Pogo" comic strip: Bewitched,
Bebothered, and Bemildred.

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On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

> At 7:31 PM -0400 8/24/10, Wilson Gray wrote:
> >"I am often _betwixt and befuddled_ by the hypocrisy ..."
>
> Reminds me of the old Rogers and Hart classic "Betwixt Bothered and
> Bewildered"
>
> LH
>
> >
> >Some of the village elders here may recall _betwixt and between_ as
> >having once been described by restrictive grammarians as a "fixed
> expression."
> >
> >I wonder what the writer understands by "betwixt."
> >
> >-Wilson
> >
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