[Sca-cooks] Historic Cheesecake in the papers this past week
Susan Fox-Davis
selene at earthlink.net
Mon Nov 22 08:20:49 PST 2004
Robin Carroll-Mann wrote:
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>From: Susan Fox-Davis <selene at earthlink.net>
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>And... 'old English'? *snort* Puh-leeze. ;) ]
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>We have to distinguish between "old English" and "Old English". The latter is the language of "Beowulf"; the former is merely archaic English.
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>Lady Brighid ni Chiarain
>Barony of Settmour Swamp, East Kingdom
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I will admit, Tanarian and I share a bit of an attitude about people who
misuse technical terms with a very specific meaning. Possibly we can be
elitist snots at times. He clearly meant "archaic" and should have said so.
Selene, not old, just archaic
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