USAGE: [CONLANG] Bunty.
| From: | And Rosta <and.rosta@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 20, 2008, 9:54 |
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Philip Newton, On 20/06/2008 09:28:
> You missed the opportunity to write "i.e. rhyming with 'pint', not
> 'bint'" :) Since "bint" is already a word.
>
> (It _does_ rhyme with 'skint', doesn't it? I've only encountered it in
> writing so far.)
It does indeed. I am surprised you've not encountered it:
DENNIS, to KING ARTHUR: "I mean, if I went 'round saying I was an emperor just because
some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!"
--And.
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