somewhat odd headline

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Fri Oct 21 00:27:34 UTC 2011


At 10/20/2011 10:46 AM, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
>...
>We should celebrate this. It's not very often one gets to use the term
>"hysteron-proteron", after all.

Is there a database?  (I know I've seen others in the wild, but I
didn't know that they were so interesting as to have a term in
Rhetoric from the 1500s.)  It would make amusing reading.

Joel

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