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Topic Options #108308 - 07/22/03 12:11 PM coach parti dxb Pooh-Bah Registered: 03/06/02 Posts: 1692 Loc: UK We were discussing the need to perform a ‘due diligence’ exercise today and I remembered that there is another meaning of the word diligence: Diligence: n. A large stagecoach - French, from (carrosse de) diligence, speed (coach), from Old French, diligence, dispatch, from Latin diligentia, from diligens, diligent-, diligent. Top #108309 - 07/22/03 05:30 PM Re: coach parti maverick Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/15/00 Posts: 4757 So would a slow charabanc of lawyers be an overdue diligence? Top #108310 - 07/23/03 07:52 AM Re: coach parti wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858 No, maverick. The'd be guilty of undue delinquence. Top #108311 - 07/23/03 12:22 PM Re: coach parti dxb Pooh-Bah Registered: 03/06/02 Posts: 1692 Loc: UK But they would take a tort-uous route no doubt. Top #108312 - 07/23/03 01:14 PM Re: coach parti Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/24/02 Posts: 7186 Loc: Vermont you are court-ing disaster, dixbey.... _________________________ formerly known as etaoin... Top #108313 - 07/23/03 07:16 PM Re: coach parti maverick Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/15/00 Posts: 4757 I thought his pun was quite appealing! ~ but would the route be writ'ten down before the process started, or would they judge that to be weighting the scales? Top Previous Topic Index Next Topic Preview Hop to: General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. (have been consolidated into a single forum above) ------   Words from medicine   Beheading words   Meta-words   Words from classical mythology   Animal Safari   Words with unusual etymologies   Eponyms or words derived from people's names.   Loanwords from German   English as a global language Moderator:  Jackie  Print Topic Switch to Threaded Mode View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts Forum Stats 8453 Members 16 Forums 13691 Topics 210115 Posts Max Online: 3341 @ 12/09/11 02:15 PM Newest Members zhangzhen, dene13, MariaAnastasia, MNPrasad, Krysto4 8453 Registered Users Who's Online 0 registered (), 59 Guests and 1 Spider online. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters (30 Days) LukeJavan8 98 wofahulicodoc 72 endymion6 70 jenny jenny 67 teepee 23 Rhubarb Commando 16 Faldage 14 tsuwm 9 anddrewlee 6 Jackie 4 June Su M Tu W Th F Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

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