[Ads-l] Zilch

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Thu Feb 11 21:57:39 UTC 2016


On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 1:44 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> trodden under feet


Does it really read "under feet"and not "under foot"/"underfoot"?
Apparently, were Phil Spitalny still alive, he'd be DBA "Phil Spitalny and
His All Women Orchestra" instead of as "... and His All-Girl Orchestra."
Were the California Aggie All-Male Marching Band still in existence, it
would be the "... All Males Marching Band."
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
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