Keep it up, Andrew. He should have recognised the Latin stem, anyway.
Chris
On 24 Sep 2010, at 11:49, Andrew Fildes wrote:
> I prefer to keep it active, as in, "Who defenestrated that slave."
> I did manage to sneak it into an incident report at school when I
> specified that student A, for his own amusement, defenestrated student
> B. The co-ordinator complained that he'd rather not have to use a
> dictionary when reading reports. I replied that as a teacher of
> English Literature, he should be familiar with the verb.
> Up north where I was born, there was no time for Latinate niceties.
> The stock suggestion at the commencement of a serious disagreement
> was - "Choose thi' winder."
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