Subject: Re: Swear by my [s]word
From: Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Date: Mon Jan 24 2000 - 04:12:40 EST
'... Loan is still not a verb ...'
I WOULD have quoted my Shorter Oxford Dictionary:
'... LOAN v. Now mainly U.S. M.E. [...] trans. To grant
the loan of; to lend ...'
- except that I have no wish to be mistaken
for an American.
Boy. A nation of lawyers. You can say that again. And
you'd better get the words right or we'll have another
fortnight defining exactly what you mean by 'A' & 'of'.
The play is, of course, about the folly of letting the law
decide human affairs.
Scottie B.
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