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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: 7184 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 8430 Members 16 Forums 13689 Topics 209810 Posts Max Online: 3341 @ 12/09/11 02:15 PM Newest Members supermatthias, prabakaran, sce, Eva, sylviasuper 8430 Registered Users Who's Online 0 registered (), 23 Guests and 1 Spider online. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters (30 Days) LukeJavan8 85 jenny jenny 61 wofahulicodoc 57 endymion6 50 Rhubarb Commando 37 BranShea 32 Faldage 15 Buffalo Shrdlu 14 zmjezhd 13 teepee 11 May 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 31

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