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Now--Nick (say so if you don't like that shortening)
Well I don't complain, but it's not my name. I never use it.
Law-French: the continuance of Norman French in legal and administrative terms, with characteristics such as N A combinations with plural Ns A, as court(s) martial, governor(s) general, durance vile, even malice aforethought; and infinitives in -er as nouns, such as rejoinder, misnomer, demurrer, and many others I can't think of too numerous to mention; and actual French phrases such as mort d'ancestor and lese-majesty, which should not be given their modern French prounciation.
Tail-end spoonerism: I don't think it's just a phonetic thing, but it has undergone several stages of unconscious grammatical reanalysis, along these lines:
-- "goods inward" is a single lexical item
-- it's plural
-- so it must end in -s
-- it only has one s
-- so it must be "good inwards"
-- and that sounds okay, as if analogical with "good news", "good intentions"
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Good inwards Faldage 01/03/01 03:01 PM Re: Good inwards NicholasW 01/03/01 03:09 PM Compounded error Faldage 01/03/01 03:41 PM Re: Compounded error Capital Kiwi 01/03/01 05:39 PM Re: Compounded error Faldage 01/03/01 06:35 PM Re: Compounded error Max Quordlepleen 01/03/01 07:14 PM Re: Compounded error Max Quordlepleen 01/03/01 07:17 PM Re: Compounded error Faldage 01/03/01 07:31 PM Re: Compounded error belMarduk 01/03/01 10:20 PM Re: Good inwards Faldage 01/04/01 01:12 PM Re: Good inwards Jazzoctopus 01/04/01 09:51 PM Re: Good inwards RhubarbCommando 01/08/01 01:30 PM Re: Good inwards belMarduk 01/06/01 01:11 AM Re: Compounded error NicholasW 01/04/01 08:54 AM Re: Compounded error Jackie 01/06/01 11:27 PM Re: Compounded error NicholasW 01/08/01 12:12 PM Re: Good inwards Solamente, Doug. 01/03/01 07:12 PM Re: Good inwards stales 01/06/01 05:27 AM
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