--- kwildgen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Someone who knows it's "chaise longue," not "chaise lounge."
> Ecstasy!
> Kathryn
>
> Bill East wrote:
> > gone out of his way to avoid the Greek.
> >
> > Exactly so. Just as one would have to go out of one's way to use
> words
> > like café, restaurant, savoir-faire, je ne sais quoi, fondue,
> > tête-à-tête, déjà vu, mange-tout, chaise longue.
I meant, of course, "to avoid using". Bloody gremlins again!
Oriens.
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