--- On Fri, 8/5/09, Michael Askin <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Michael Askin <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [canals-list] Re: Fathage??
To: [email protected]
Date: Friday, 8 May, 2009, 11:45 AM
Faffage is obviously a new word - so I want it down in writing that I
created it! Now, lets see how much it can be used during the day :-)
Mike, Have the courage of your convictions & get ''fathage'' into the language
instead.After all, *that* was the word I picked up on in the first place!!This
may be an apocryphal tale but it concerns two drinking friends in Dublin[?] one
betting the other that he could introduce a new word into the English language
& proceeded to write 'quiz' on a load of public statues/places overnight.The
next day everyone was asking what ''quiz'' meant & it came to mean 'what it
says on the tin'How many people remember what *that* product was??BarryNb
surgeonofcrowthorne
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