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#77253 07/30/02 06:31 PM
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Dear tsuwm: Are his "quotes" then pnony?


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aw, that's just sad.

I hadn't gone to the OED yet because my hands were dirty...

oh well...



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> still think that "Hansardize" is a bit stinky, unless it was for Canadian readers. I doubt
many US readers would know it, Or UK either.

Au contraire, I think that most Commonwealth readers would know what Hansardize meant, since it seems that most Commonwealth parliaments are minuted by Hansard's. If India's Parliament is, then one-quarter of the world's population lives in a country familiar with Hansard's


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>Are his "quotes" then pnony?

kevin takes actual, topical news stories and substitutes in his word for the day, hopefully capturing the appropriate sense (he's been known to blow one occasionally). so, yes, the quotes are... a bit disingenuous? many of his words cry out forlornly for current usage and he often has to guess at proper context. here, e.g., is the most recent citation for onsaw:

1300 Fals it was, al Žair onsaw.


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Thanks, tsuwm. It doesn't spoil the fun. I was really baffled, thionking he must have
some superdeluxe search engine to find so many obscure words actually used.


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so now, Kevin has been Hansardized...





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