[lit-ideas] Re: Useless headline

 
 
In a message dated 9/29/2004 1:02:51 PM Eastern Standard Time, pas@xxxxxxxx  
writes:
"Kerry  is Widely Favoured Abroad"

still searching the papers, awaiting some  real news,
Paul


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Well, this is a nice case for historical (or 'istorical, as Geary writes,  -- 
"since we don't pronounce the haitch") analysis. Since 'broad' is the  
opposite of 'narrow', and 'a-broad' (literally, 'all-broad', metathetical for  
'all-a-board' (+>a ship going somewhere) only recently has become synonymous  
with 
'not in the United States'.
 
Cheers,
 
JL
 
 

 


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