Thanks, Robin. That explains why certain great singers with certain songs can cause so many to go into a "fit".
A good poem has a good 'outfit'. Or, Alison is busy 'outfitting' her new B translation.'
Not here to give anybody 'fits'.
Stephen V
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
--- On Mon, 11/24/08, Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: subject to fitts
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Monday, November 24, 2008, 3:07 PM
> And you can simply delete the fitts, if you find them tedious.
Isn't fitt like kinda sorta like GGK and Snark, rather than the Bee
muncher?
R
(The OED gives the first instance of "fit" as:
1. A part or section of a poem or song; a canto.
c888 K. ÆLFRED Boeth. xxxi. §1 (Gr.) Se wisdom a as fitte asungen hæfde.
1362 LANGL. P. Pl. A. I. 139 Cumse[] er a Fitte. c.
... which is a fair fit bit after _Beowulf_, in any dating.
... just a thot.
R.
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