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- From: stoddard@milori.ccit.arizona.edu (MJ STODDARD)
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- Subject: Re: Irishly in L. Sprague DeCamp
- Message-ID: <21DEC199210370694@milori.ccit.arizona.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 17:37:00 GMT
- References: <1992Dec17.195551.7129@news.vanderbilt.edu> <1992Dec19.004849.27586@u.washington.edu> <1992Dec21.124410.24730@maths.tcd.ie>
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- In article <1992Dec21.124410.24730@maths.tcd.ie>, pmoloney@maths.tcd.ie (Paul Moloney) writes...
- >twain@milton.u.washington.edu (Barbara Hlavin) writes:
- >> vusl@athena.cas.vanderbilt.edu (VU Science Library) writes:
- >
- >>>I am reading L. Sprague DeCamp's Lest Darkness Fall and I have a
- >>>question. In talking about Ebenezer the Jew, DeCamp describes him
- >>>as distressingly pious and says, "he did not eat at all, to put it
- >>>Irishly, for fear of transgressing one of the innumerable rules of
- >>>his sect." What does "Irishly" mean here?
- >
- Since example is better than explanation, another Irishism, from
- Charlotte MacLeod:
- The visting (Irish) professor said: Ah, Doctor, everyone of your
- seven lovely daughters is more beautiful than the last.
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- Mari Stoddard / stoddard@ccit.arizona.edu
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