On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 16:30, Roger Merchberger wrote:
> you
> will see that Sellam in the past (and quite probably will be in the future,
> if I'm given a bit of latitude to /assume/ here...) has been completely
> unswayed by arguments posited to him to modify his particular (preferred?
> ;-) usage of the American language.
Actually, the origins of the word are quite old and convoluted. See:
http://www.wordorigins.org/wordorf.htm
(I had to go check as I wasn't sure if it was an American-English word
that had slowly crept back across the pond or not)
cheers
Jules
Received on Tue Jul 27 2004 - 13:29:26 BST