 02-04-2008, 11:49 AM | #76 |
Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: I rub my tilde all over your asterisk Gender:  Posts: 16,563 Thanks: 554 Thanked 1,586 Times in 781 Posts Points: 6,502.69 Bank: 3,462,620.43 Total Points: 3,469,123.12 | Quote: | That this, a hybrid, a Gallicism, and a word with no obvious meaning to the Englishman who hears it for the first time, should have ousted the entirely satisfactory eyeglass is a melancholy illustration of the popular taste in language. | |
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