[rollei_list] Re: Sagent members, was: Re: Re: Strange Rollei problem

At 09:27 AM 8/26/2008, Aaron Reece wrote:
>On Aug 25, 2008, at 5:55 PM, Marc James Small wrote:
>
>> Weebles wobble but they don't fall down.  And the name is "Rollei",
>> not Rollie. I have corrected the thread name and trust that our
>> sagent membership will comply with this emendation.
>
>"Sagent?" Prithee 'splain this etymological oddity, my good List
>Panjandrum, lest thy readers unfairly suspect thy self of base
>neologizing.
Shucks. Never thought much about it, as I learned it from Mrs Hoffman in Fifth Grade. Sagent = "thoughtful, wise-thinking, perceptive". It is hardly a neologism, though I am too lazy to dig out my OED to check the first date of its appearance.
I am hoping that you and your family can join us for the Zeiss do down here in Chester in May. Love to meet up with you kids again. Bring your oboe: there are jazz bands in these hustings hungry to have you join in! 

Marc


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Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!

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