[lit-ideas] Re: Useless headline
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 17:38:33 EDT
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
----
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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