[Ads-l] Is there *anything* that can't be dumbed down?

[Wilson Gray]

> A quick search turns up the term Easter candle in a book
> from 1957, so it's not just a recent innovation.

Chris, I'm an octogenarian. Something that didn't happen until 1957 is just
a recent innovation.😜

On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 2:43 PM, Chris Waigl <chris at lascribe.net> wrote:

> I'm not sure that using the English word for Easter is dumber than using
> the Latin one. (A quick search turns up the term Easter candle in a book
> from 1957, so it's not just a recent innovation.)
>
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 5:32 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > "Paschal" always makes me think of Camilo Pascual, ace curveballer of the
> > old Senators.
> >
> > JL
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 5:34 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > In an e-mail from America Media, published by the Jesuits:
> > >
> > > "_Easter_ candle"
> > >
> > > Back when, the term was "_Paschal_ candle."
> > >
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-- 
-Wilson
-----
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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