atw: Re: Writing a Request for Tender document

>Close, but no cigar. The correct the noun of assemblage for lawyers is
"surplus".
>Partridge, Eric: Usage & Abusage, Penguin 1973, p 300.

Odd. James Lipton in "An Exaltation of Larks" gives "an eloquence of
lawyers" and this is cautiously attested by the OED. My Partridge is a
different edition so I can't find the entry. The OED doesn't seem to record
this usage.


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