Go up, thou bald-pate!
a.c.
Ampleforth Abbey, York
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bill East <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 11 October 1999 10:15
Subject: Re: Today's Student Version ...
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>Actually I have some sympathy with the student who wrote "analise" for
>"analyse". I have always though that latter form, and its derivative,
>"analyst" to be rather odd. Someone who performs analysis, one might
>have thought, should be called an analysist; and I believe was so
>called in the far-distant days of my youth. The "lys" is the aorist
>stem of "luo", to loose, not a termination. "Analyst" is a barbarism,
>concocted by someone ignorant both of Greek and of English
>terminations. At least the student in question knew how to construct
>an English word.
>
>But please allow me to smile at my own pedantry before someone else has
>a go at me. :-)
>
>Oriens.
>
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