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Subject: Re: TWL: for the good of the order
From: Zeke Anderson (zeekstah@XXX.XXX)
Date: Mon Mar 04 2002 - 09:47:42 EST
> Since posting that response to Richard I checked that most weighty of
> references, the Oxford English Dictionary, which also supports the usage
> if not the derivation stating that under weigh is "a common var. of
> under way, from erroneous association with the phr. "to weigh anchor"".
> Examples of this usage are cited from 1777 onwards.
>
> Wesley
If the venerable OED says the association is "erroneous", then I may too.
Nobody ever made any weigh
by sitting on the dock of the beigh.
But try to correct 'em,
they'll infer you're a rectum,
and then there's the devil to peigh.
8-) ;-0
Zeke Anderson
Kerrville, TX
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