"beyond the pall"

[Joel S. Berson]

Or based on "pall" as being gloomy, as the Pale of Settlement
was.  But I was hoping for a nice, arcane, technical linguistic term
for the phenomenon.  :-)

Joel

At 12/29/2010 02:43 PM, Herb Stahlke wrote:
>Or based on the more technical meaning of "pall" as a cloth covering a
>casket until the casket is lowered into the grave.
>
>Herb
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>On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Jonathan Lighter
><wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Rationalization basd on ignorance of the meaning (in this case) of the word
> > "pale"?
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> > JL
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> > On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> >> What is the type of error called that results in "beyond the pall"
> >> stated instead of "beyond the pale"?  I can imagine someone thinking
> >> of pall, n.1, "(fig.) something regarded as enveloping a situation
> >> with an air of gloom, heaviness, or fear." (9.a).
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