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Someone who knows it's "chaise longue," not "chaise lounge."  Ecstasy!
Kathryn

Bill East wrote:
> 
> --- [log in to unmask] wrote:
> > In a message dated 02/15/2000 6:25:14 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> > [log in to unmask] writes:
> 
> Being raised in that tradition, as Jerome certainly was, he had to have
> 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.
> 
> At least, I would.
> 
> As to being cranky, if you can't be cranky on this list, where can you
> be cranky?
> 
> Bill.
> 
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