Chaucer uses "dead as a door nail" as an old cliche in his time. Possibly
relates to a carpenter hammering over the sharp end of a nail which is
called "killing" it.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Crockett [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, September 17, 1999 1:31 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: monastic query
>
> i wrote wrote:
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> >YaddaYaddaYadda...
> >Luckily for this patient list, I know nothing about the terminology used
> in
> documents from the "convents" of "nuns" from the diocese, though I
> seem to be in the process of learning:
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> http://homepages.infoseek.com/~centrechartraine/convents.html
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> Which link would have been dead as the proverbial door-nail (where'd that
> phrase come from?) until now.
>
> Dang i hate it when that happens.
>
> the above link should work now; or you can visit the place where it
> *should*
> have been:
>
> http://homepages.infoseek.com/~centrechartraine/convents/convents.html
>
> apologies to all.
>
> c
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