[Ads-l] suspect, adj.

[Benjamin Barrett]

> On 1 Jun 2016, at 11:18, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 8:02 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> "Feeling suspicion; suspicious."
>> 
>> Retired general on CNN:
>> 
>> "I was suspect then, and I continue to be suspect."
>> 
> 
> Clearly, the OED is a Sisyphean effort. As a science-fiction author of the
> '50's once noted - or quoted; I'm not up to getting serious about the
> research, right now - "You can't even step into the same river *once*!”

This was essentially also noted by Kamo no Chōmei in his famous essay “Hōjōki” of the thirteenth century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hōjōki.

Benjamin Barrett
Formerly of Seattle, WA

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