[blml] L20F1

[Mike Amos]

wow
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Grattan Endicott" <grandeval at vejez.fsnet.co.uk>
To: "blml" <blml at rtflb.org>
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 9:03 AM
Subject: Re: [blml] L20F1


>
> from Grattan Endicott
> grandeval at vejez.fsnet.co.uk
> [also gesta at tiscali.co.uk]
> *****************************
> "Reason's whole pleasure, all the
>                               joys of sense,
> Lie in three words, health, peace,
>                          and competence."
>                       -~ Alexander Pope.
> ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
> ----- 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 ~   +=+
>
>
>

wow  and I always thought I had been told your mother tongue was was 
Grattanese

Mike

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