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OP 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
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted caitiff timbabwe 02/08/11 03:03 PM Re: caitiff LukeJavan8 02/08/11 04:20 PM Re: caitiff BranShea 02/08/11 09:32 PM Re: caitiff tsuwm 02/08/11 09:40 PM Re: caitiff Jackie 02/09/11 01:42 AM Re: caitiff BranShea 02/09/11 10:42 AM Re: caitiff LukeJavan8 02/09/11 03:56 PM
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