On 10/03/2011 20:04, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> With apologies to Mr. Shaw: "Forgive him, Caesar -- he is a barbarian and
> considers that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature."
>
> --Bob
>
>
> On Mar 10, 2011, at 12:31 AM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
>
>> Obselete preposition - one of those archaic forms of which the murkins are
>> so fond, as with 'gotten'.
>
Quite so, but 'anent' is much used in Scotland, and considered part of
our everyday usage, wherever it came from.
D.
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