[blml] L20F1

[Grattan Endicott]

from Grattan Endicott
grandeval at vejez.fsnet.co.uk
[also gesta at tiscali.co.uk]
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"Reason's whole pleasure, all the 
                               joys of sense,
 Lie in three words, health, peace, 
                          and competence."
                       -~ Alexander Pope. 
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Probst" <john at asimere.com>
To: "blml" <blml at rtflb.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2006 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: [blml] L20F1


> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Herman De Wael" <herman at hdw.be>
> To: "blml" <blml at rtflb.org>
> Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 5:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [blml] L20F1
> 
> 
> >dilemnae!
> 
> Herman wins the MadDog impenetrability prize for 
> November, thus breaking Grattan's unbroken tradition
> 
> Grattan, you need to return to the OED, dear boy :)  John
> 
+=+ I tend to use the Shorter Oxford (why is its every 
edition "New"?), 'The New Oxford Dictionary of English', 
Collins, and particularly Chambers. All four advise that 
'dilemma' was introduced to the English language circa 
1500-1529 AD, beyond which I have only a renewed 
awareness that it would have been good to take classical 
Greek. The Latin transition is no more than that. Ah, how 
I have deprived myself of linguistic resources! But I am 
versed in English.
                                           ~ G ~   +=+