Re: Suggestive nonsense (was: K-Rad)
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 22, 2001, 4:28 |
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John Cowan wrote:
> > Also, I'd always thouht
> > of <brillig> as an adjective, but I've read that Carroll later said it was a
> > noun meaning some part of the day (teatime, was it?)
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> That's what Humpty Dumpty says, and it's possible, but I think a naive
> hearer would assign Adjective instead.
I always thought it was a kind of weather, something like a bright sunny
day. But, a noun certainly fits as well.
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