Okay, Bill:
in that case, your ‘bot,’ isn’t I guess an anachronism, nut it is only Australian; I’d never heard of it, while the idea of ‘bots’ as in the little robots of the internet is very much of today, & that's what I heard.
Doug
> On May 29, 2019, at 4:43 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Bot is an anachronism, I suppose, Doug, not used now as far as I know. But
> then, it was common to bot a smoke or be aware of someone ‘on the bot’, so
> I think it ok to use.
> I’ll stand by my deliberate use of the definite article as indicative of
> ritual. Also partly homage to the standalone line at the end of Eliot’s
> first Prelude:
>
> And then the lighting of the lamps
>
> Bill
>
> On Thu, 30 May 2019 at 3:54 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
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