Re: Personal adjectives (was: Fruitful typos (was: Vulgar Latin))
| From: | Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 25, 2000, 19:53 |
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At 7:38 pm +0100 24/1/00, BP Jonsson wrote:
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>Now, am *I* Philippian,
An inhabitant of Philippi IIRC.
>Philippic
I think that one's reserved for the King of Macedonia who father Alexander
(and a lot of others :)
>or Philippine?
Yes, it has a nice ring to it.
>Certainly not Benedictine! :-)
Certainly not, indeed - one drinks that!
Ray.
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