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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (2856)6/11/1999 1:13:00 AM
From: jbe  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 4711
 
"The Tao of Grammar and Spelling" is a really cute title, Lather. But what about "The Tao of Grammar, Spelling, and Style"?

Or how about "The Tao of Grammar, Spelling, Syntax, and Style"?

As I posted once, my late husband, an English professor, used to love to shock his students by telling them that English has no grammar -- only syntax.

And I have discovered that there are folks out there who are far more interested in stylistic matters than in grammar as such.

Maybe we can devise a whole paragraph as a thread title. <g>

Edit: Or at least a very long single-sentence title, something like:

AX cOUSIN SHORTY,,,STOK Market GREW and famous AUTHOR!!!!

(That was a free plug for one of our occasional contributors.)

Joan



To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (2856)6/11/1999 1:23:00 AM
From: jbe  Respond to of 4711
 
On the origin of the verb "to wuzzle"

Damned if I know. It ain't in the dictionary.

Maybe it's a southernism. But Volume III of that wonderful three-volume dictionary of American slang isn't out yet, so I can't look it up. (Lather, did you buy Volume II?)

Or maybe it is a familyism. Anyway, I have always used it. Wonderful word.

Joan


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