breadcrumbs

[George Thompson]

I was hoping that in as much as computers may have bugs but don't have
birds, the OED's trail of breadcrumbs would stay intact.

GAT

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

> On Sep 17, 2012, at 2:20 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
> >> That expression has become ubiquitous, but it's noteworthy that in the
> famous Grimm Brothers' version of "Hansel and Gretel," to which the saying
> presumably alludes, the trail of breadcrumbs could NOT be followed.
> >
> > So, what are the facts, Charlie? Don't leave me hanging!
> >
> > --
>
> The birdies ate the breadcrumbs, IIRC.
>
> LH
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George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much since then.

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