Re: Phoneme winnowing continues
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 6, 2003, 11:19 |
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Tristan McLeay scripsit:
> >Thus the seemingly redundant word "inkpen" used to distinguish the [pIn]
> >you write with from the [pIn] you stick through things. :)
>
> Are 'biro' and 'ballpoint pen' not used in America?
The former I have never heard. The latter is used, but not all pens
are ballpoint pens: some are markers, some are even fountain pens.
--
John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan www.reutershealth.com
I must confess that I have very little notion of what [s. 4 of the British
Trade Marks Act, 1938] is intended to convey, and particularly the sentence
of 253 words, as I make them, which constitutes sub-section 1. I doubt if
the entire statute book could be successfully searched for a sentence of
equal length which is of more fuliginous obscurity. --MacKinnon LJ, 1940
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