[PW] Idle query

[MichaelMay.44443609 at bloglines.com]

I beg to differ! Idle conversation is not proper context for archaic words!



Mike in Dubuque



--- list at project-wombat.org wrote:

True, and I probably
should have taken more care in phrasing the idle query!

> 

> So far, however,
the results are about tied ... those who knew the word 

> vs. those who didn't.

> 

> Actually, makes me feel better ... I'm not a librarian, merely a 

> collector of books and words ... that I'm not the only one using it in 

> proper context {grin}!

> 

> Peter

> 

> Jeanne Schramm wrote:

> 

>
>Correct me if I'm wrong, but it appears to me that this was a survey ---
not

> >a request for information.  The specific query being "How many ...
know the

> >word without having to look it up?"

> >Jeanne Schramm, W. Liberty,
WV  26074

> >

> >On 8/2/07, Peter Zilahy Ingerman, PhD <pzi at ingerman.org>
wrote:

> >  

> >

> >>On a recent visit to our local library, I noticed,
and commented to a

> >>Librarian, that an Atlas had apparently been grangerized.

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