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#75687 - 07/10/02 12:49 PM Re: de luxe vs. deluxe
TheFallibleFiend veteran Registered: 01/23/02 Posts: 1523 Loc: Virginia, USA	I was guessing communication speak. Wonder which it is. ReHowdy to ya, k
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#75688 - 07/10/02 12:51 PM Re: de luxe vs. deluxe
Fiberbabe old hand Registered: 01/12/01 Posts: 771 Loc: Portland, Oregon	Hey Jackie - meet me in Vegas and we'll have brunch at De Luxor.
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#75689 - 07/10/02 01:28 PM Re: de luxe vs. deluxe
TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel Registered: 07/17/00 Posts: 3467 Loc: Marion NC	I'd been wondering where the heck you were! Makes me realize how long it's been since I've gone to the beach. Long time, no sea! Welcome back, dearest lady! HUGS TEd _________________________ TEd
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#75690 - 07/10/02 02:02 PM Re: de luxe vs. deluxe
Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11578 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky	Thanks, you-all--love you! (De)luxury, indeed! De Luxor--sounds like something out of Lois and Clark (speaking of Kents!). by--a special spill-I-mean-clink of the beer glasses to you, Sweetie. Ted--sir, you have no idea of how beachy I can be!
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#75691 - 07/10/02 02:07 PM Re: de luxe vs. deluxe
tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10463 Loc: this too shall pass	just for old time's sake (hi Jackie!), here's what the dictionaries have to say: M-W gives it solely as deluxe. AHD prefers deluxe, but lists de luxe as a variant. OED Online: \|\|de luxe [Fr., lit. ‘of luxury’.] Luxurious, sumptuous; of a superior kind. 1819 Edition de luxe [see LUXE 2]. 1865 ‘OUIDA’ Strathmore viii, I wonder governments don't tax good talk; it's quite a luxury, and they might add de luxe. 1885 Edition de luxe [see LUXE 2]. 1890 Trains de luxe [see LUXE 2]. 1908 Westm. Gaz. 6 June 5/1 We are conscious of something De luxe, but not oppressed by the sense of it. 1934 Punch 20 June 679/3 They will disclose Britannia, enthroned on the top of a de luxe model of one of those erections from which they mend tram-wires. 1949 E. POUND Pisan Cantos lxxvii. 52 Before the deluxe car carried him over the precipice. 1955 T. H. PEAR Eng. Social Differences viii. 182 Members of the upper economic strata..who patronise hotels de luxe. 1970 K. CHESNEY Victorian Underworld 336 These places were often little businesses engaged in a de luxe trade, glovers, bonnet makers, perfumers and so on. so perhaps we have Ezra Pound to thank for the concatenation? and using capitalization seems to be ostentatious in the extreme, along the same lines as dining at the American Grille.
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#75692 - 07/10/02 02:34 PM Re: de luxe vs. deluxe
belligerentyouth old hand Registered: 12/20/00 Posts: 1055 Loc: Berlin	> American Grille. LMAO!!!!! What a classic!
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#75693 - 07/10/02 04:00 PM Re: de luxe vs. deluxe
inselpeter Pooh-Bah Registered: 03/14/01 Posts: 2379 Loc: New York City	<<commspeak = commonspeak>> commspeak = commercial speech.
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#75694 - 07/10/02 04:10 PM Re: de luxe vs. deluxe
wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858	Badword the OED. "deluxe" is English word, "de luxe" is a French phrase, mes amis. Used by Amercans who know at least ten words in French.
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#75695 - 07/10/02 04:16 PM Re: de luxe vs. deluxe
wow Carpal Tunnel Registered: 11/25/00 Posts: 3439 Loc: New England, USA	'Allo! Dix? Merde! A bientot et Au revoir.
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#75696 - 07/10/02 05:05 PM Re: de luxe vs. deluxe
tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10463 Loc: this too shall pass	>Badword the OED. "deluxe" is English word, "de luxe" is a French phrase, mes amis. what the bad word, Bill? deluxe is derived directly from de luxe, so what's yer point?!
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