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#98200 03/10/03 12:17 PM

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Recently, one of our more fastidious grammarians pursued a usage of suspicious pedigree until it evaporated into the mists of coincidence.

Is this a case of supplanting a suspected offence against linguistic purity with an offence against scientific plausibility?

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evaporation into mist wordminstrel 03/10/03 12:17 PM

Re: evaporation into mist RhubarbCommando 03/10/03 12:38 PM

Re: evaporation into mist wwh 03/10/03 01:01 PM

Re: evaporation into mist Wordwind 03/10/03 01:03 PM

Re: evaporation into mist Faldage 03/10/03 01:46 PM

Re: evaporation into mist vika 03/10/03 02:25 PM

Re: evaporation into mist maahey 03/10/03 06:10 PM

Re: evaporation into mist Faldage 03/10/03 06:15 PM

Implication Simplification musick 03/10/03 06:59 PM

Re: evaporation into mist RhubarbCommando 03/10/03 04:37 PM

I get misty musick 03/10/03 04:01 PM

plural possessive AnnaStrophic 03/10/03 07:16 PM

Re: plural possessive wwh 03/10/03 08:43 PM

Re: plural possessive Faldage 03/10/03 08:49 PM

Re: sheesh Buffalo Shrdlu 03/10/03 09:32 PM

Re: sheesh maahey 03/11/03 05:29 AM

Re: sheesh Buffalo Shrdlu 03/11/03 10:17 AM

Re: coins of misincidence Faldage 03/11/03 10:51 AM

Re: sheesh Wordwind 03/11/03 10:55 AM

Re: sheesh Faldage 03/11/03 11:22 AM

Re: sheesh maahey 03/11/03 12:43 PM

Re: doggedly refusing to evaporate maahey 03/11/03 12:52 PM

Re: doggedly refusing to evaporate Wordwind 03/11/03 01:29 PM

Re: ayleurs AnnaStrophic 03/11/03 01:48 PM

Re: ayleurs Jackie 03/11/03 02:17 PM

Re: ayleurs Faldage 03/11/03 02:27 PM

apologies to Abbot and Costello AnnaStrophic 03/11/03 02:45 PM

Re: ayleurs Faldage 03/11/03 02:46 PM

Re: doggedly refusing to evaporate maahey 03/12/03 03:22 PM

Re: doggedly refusing to evaporate WhitmanO'Neill 03/15/03 02:29 PM

Re: doggedly refusing to evaporate Wordwind 03/15/03 04:24 PM

larger than life wordminstrel 03/15/03 04:49 PM

Re: larger than life sjm 03/15/03 07:05 PM

Re: larger than life wordminstrel 03/15/03 07:22 PM

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Re: larger than life wordminstrel 03/15/03 08:44 PM

Re: doggedly refusing to evaporate Faldage 03/15/03 07:56 PM

Re: doggedly refusing to evaporate WhitmanO'Neill 03/15/03 08:38 PM

Re: doggedly refusing to evaporate wordminstrel 03/15/03 10:55 PM

Re: doggedly refusing to evaporate Wordwind 03/15/03 11:10 PM

Re: doggedly refusing to evaporate Buffalo Shrdlu 03/15/03 11:26 PM

Re: doggedly refusing to evaporate Faldage 03/15/03 11:28 PM

Re: doggedly refusing to evaporate Buffalo Shrdlu 03/15/03 11:32 PM

Re: doggedly refusing to evaporate Wordwind 03/15/03 11:38 PM

Re: doggedly refusing to evaporate maahey 03/16/03 05:40 AM

Re: doggedly refusing to evaporate Wordwind 03/16/03 12:51 PM

Re: doggedly refusing to evaporate wordminstrel 03/16/03 02:45 PM

Re: doggedly refusing to evaporate Faldage 03/16/03 02:51 PM

Re: doggedly refusing to evaporate Wordwind 03/16/03 03:07 PM

Re: doggedly refusing to evaporate tsuwm 03/16/03 04:11 PM

Re: doggedly refusing to evaporate Wordwind 03/16/03 04:22 PM

talmudic mud-wrestling wordminstrel 03/16/03 05:27 PM

Bottomless mud-wrestling musick 03/16/03 07:28 PM

Re: Bottomless mud-wrestling wordminstrel 03/16/03 07:51 PM

Re: talmudic mud-wrestling Capfka 03/17/03 01:13 PM

Re: talmudic mud-wrestling wordminstrel 03/18/03 12:38 AM

Re: talmudic mud-wrestling Faldage 03/18/03 01:02 AM

Re: talmudic mud-wrestling Capfka 03/18/03 09:55 AM

Re: talmudic mud-wrestling WhitmanO'Neill 03/18/03 02:38 PM

Re: talmudic mud-wrestling Faldage 03/18/03 04:37 PM

talmudic mud-wrestling in a stiff North wind consuelo 03/18/03 05:44 PM

Of winds and air JohnHawaii 03/19/03 02:05 AM

Re: Of winds and air wwh 03/25/03 02:58 AM

Re: talmudic mud-wrestling wordminstrel 03/22/03 03:18 PM

wordminstrel 03/25/03 02:30 AM

Re: s-word play wwh 03/25/03 02:42 AM

Re: s-word play wordminstrel 03/25/03 08:57 AM

Re: Post deleted by wordminstrel AnnaStrophic 03/25/03 12:32 PM

Wha...? Rapunzel 03/25/03 01:19 PM

Re: Wha...? wofahulicodoc 03/25/03 09:51 PM

Re: Wha...? WhitmanO'Neill 03/25/03 10:17 PM

Re: Wha...? consuelo 03/26/03 10:53 AM

Re: doggedly refusing to evaporate WhitmanO'Neill 03/16/03 05:29 PM

clouded in a sea of mist wordminstrel 03/11/03 08:50 PM

Re: missed... Buffalo Shrdlu 03/11/03 10:03 PM

Re: clouded in a sea of mist Faldage 03/12/03 11:22 AM

mixed metaphors AnnaStrophic 03/12/03 06:09 PM

Re: mixed metaphors wordminstrel 03/13/03 10:23 PM

Re: mixed metaphors Faldage 03/14/03 11:27 AM

Re: mixed metaphors Bingley 03/14/03 05:38 AM

Re: mixed metaphors Jackie 03/14/03 12:36 PM

Sir Boyle Roche TEd Remington 03/14/03 02:24 PM

Re: Sir Boyle Roche wordminstrel 03/14/03 09:34 PM

Re: mixed metaphors wwh 03/14/03 09:55 PM

Re: mixed metaphors Jackie 03/14/03 10:49 PM

Re: mixed metaphors Bingley 03/15/03 11:58 AM

Re:confusion wwh 03/10/03 10:03 PM

Re:confusion Coffeebean 03/11/03 03:01 AM

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