"... _in highn-sight_, that source is still around ..."

[Bill Palmer]

In my grammar school days in East Texas, in our baseball games, the boy
playing catcher was always called the "hind catcher".

Bill P
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From: "Wilson Gray" <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
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Subject: "... _in highn-sight_, that source is still around ..."


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> Apparently, for some speakers, _hind_" is just noise forming part of a
> fixed, meaninigless, phrase tossed into a sentence for purposes of
> introducing an element of pswaydo-elegance into one's prose.
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