And Mike is being persnickety.
At 08:31 PM 1/21/2003 -0600, you wrote:
> It's a fancy way of saying poor. <vbg>
Well, sort of. I know I've seen the word used to apply to aristocrats who
don't have the cash to support their inherited baronial mansions in proper
style. It means without sufficient wealth, without exactly meaning the same
thing as "poor."
A street person is poor. O.J. Simpson is impecunious.
--Mike
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Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. --Groucho Marx