as answered in the alt.usage.english (AUE) Usenet newsgroup. My thanks to the participating AUE members.
The focus of my questions was the language: rare words, funny or original expressions, special or strange constructs — as I saw them, from within my own idiosyncrasies.
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
as answered in the alt.usage.english (AUE) Usenet newsgroup. My thanks to the participating AUE members.
The focus of my questions was the language: rare words, funny or original expressions, special or strange constructs — as I saw them, from within my own idiosyncrasies.