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Re: Words of the day: "box" and "bolt"

From:<jcowan@...>
Date:Friday, May 28, 2004, 20:39
Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> Once again, you're proving to me that you speak a very archaic form of > French. I never heard "tailler une plume" for whatever meaning you're > saying. *Nobody* refers to a pen as a "plume" except in poetry and in the > set phrase "nom de plume": "pseudonym".
Legman (who wrote the book in 1969, I think) glosses the phrase as "trimming a quill". What word is used in France today for a quill pen? -- John Cowan www.ccil.org/~cowan www.reutershealth.com jcowan@reutershealth.com We want more school houses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more constant work and less crime; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures. --Samuel Gompers

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