Re: Swear by my [s]word


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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