On Tue, 31 Aug 1999 06:40:00 EDT [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Unfortunately for your correspondents the OED has been deemed legally to be a
> reliable source of definitions especially as it includes the sources of its
> information which is more than most people posting to this list are prepared
> to do. Obviously it is not foolproof
> The onus is therefore on correspondents to prove the OED wrong which they
> could start by showing that a volumetric measuring device for chaldrons
> existed in the post Restoration period
I'm getting rather tired of the petty, ill mannered and bad tempered
correspondence regarding chaldrons. I assumed, perhaps I was mistaken,
that the list dealt with problems, queries etc in grown up, rather than
the yah boo sucks manner which seems to be prevailing at the moment.
Perhaps its time to draw a line under this one and get back to normal
once more.
Felix Oliver-Tasker
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