Re: Phoneme winnowing continues
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, June 8, 2003, 20:26 |
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On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 09:53:40PM +0200, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> What I typically use for writing nowadays, tho', is a _stiftpenna_. I dunno
> the English word - it's those plastic things with a thin graphite rod in.
> Would they class as "pencils"? I'm rarely to be found without one of those.
Yes, they're pencils; specifically, mechanical pencils. Unmodified
"pencil" refers to the wooden variety.
-Mark