Not in anything by Jonathon? Should it be in a future work?

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Thu Apr 3 17:46:43 UTC 2014


While trying to document '60's BE slang, _Roadhog_ "Cadillac Sedan de
Ville," - *still* a fruitless endeavor, seemingly - I came across

"... canicide (i.e. dog-killer) = a reckless motorist ..."

The Duden pictorial encyclopedia in five languages: English, French,
German, Italian, Spanish, Volume 2, Page 19
Konrad Duden

New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Company, 1958

http://goo.gl/WLdBhE
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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