[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:

>-----Original Message-----
>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
>
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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