Re: Diphthongs

Quoting John Cowan <cowan@...>:

> Thomas R. Wier scripsit:
>
> > no "tight as a tick" (whatever that means) for me.
>
> Obviously you have never been bitten by a tick, or tried to remove
> one, then.
No, my dad always uses in some socially metaphorical way
that I haven't quite grasped/bothered to ask him about.

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Thomas Wier <trwier@...>

"If a man demands justice, not merely as an abstract concept,
but in setting up the life of a society, and if he holds, further,
that within that society (however defined) all men have equal rights,
then the odds are that his views, sooner rather than later, are going
to set something or someone on fire." Peter Green, in _From Alexander
to Actium_, on Spartan king Cleomenes III