"but what"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Yeah. His style is so idiosyncratic that Lawrence of Arabia, who thought the
book the bee's knees, specifically tried to avoid it.

GB Preview turns up no "but whats" in _Seven Pillars of Wisdom_. So maybe
Lawrence couldn't handle it either.

JL

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Is Doughty doughtily using _uneasy_ to mean "uncomfortable"?
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