Walker Percy, in The Last Gentleman, cited the expression
"Go to, caitiff!" as campus slang at Princeton University,
current in the 1930's but obsolete by 1966, when the book
was written.

--
I am pedantically obligated to state that
there is no apostrophe in Finnegans Wake, by
Jame's Joyce, author of Dubliner's and Ulysse's.
---Tim Szeliga

Welcome timbabwe and welcome back.


Can't help but notice the similarity of your name to the
southern African country.

You're home. This is pedant's or if you wish pedants paradise.

>pedants paradise

hey! I resemble that remark!

Two exclamation points?!

Welcome, Tim--cute comment!

How poor would language be without playfulness and pedantry.
(uninteded rhyming)

pedant:
a.o. obsolete : a male schoolteacher

I guess this makes me obsolete: oh my!