Hey, buster, don't go trampling over my digraph in the interests of
orthographical reform! And there was I defending your "gotten" archaism and
see how you repay me!!
Truth be told, I put that in expecting you to bite, Bob. And if I didn't
cling to the "ASCII-only" in email convention, I would have out a real
digraph in. I admit to a soft spot for them - got me published on the
letters page of The Times too. But that was when it was a real paper, hot
metal, printed in London, 60 screen mono images, none of this full colour
web offset regionally printed tabloid nonsense!
Piers
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Whitmire [mailto:bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 01 February 2011 15:51
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Use of verbs, was Re: olympus Digest, Vol 27, Issue 31
Palaeo? Is that like Paleo? <g> I take no offense. The Pleistocene is my
favorite epoch, paleo-indians one of my favorite courses of study in
college, not to mention the Paleolithic on a more global scale. (Of course
no one's offered any conclusive evidence that the Pleistocene actually is
over.) At one time I knew both the North American and European names for the
four stages of Pleistocene glaciation. I wonder what they're going to call
the fifth? <g>
--Bob
On Feb 1, 2011, at 5:35 AM, Piers Hemy wrote:
> Think of it as living palaeography-cum-etymology (and hope that Bob
> Whitmire doesn't take offence at being given the palaeo- prefix).
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