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- From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: concertising
- Message-ID: <9301262338.AA18528@pizzabox.demon.co.uk>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 23:38:33 GMT
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- Roger:
- :OK:
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- :First citation is from 1883, in a metaphoric use marked off in quote marks:
- :farm animals 'concertizing.' This indicates that the word already existed
- :in its non-metaphoric use; it would be weird to invent a word for the purpose
- :of using it metaphorically, without establishing its simple meaning. This
- :is American, from Harper's Magazine.
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- Not at all - I refer you to our recent discussion of 'semi-literate
- quotation marks'... clearly the trend has been around for a long time :-)
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- G
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