The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #172874   Message #4194459
Posted By: Lighter
29-Dec-23 - 06:53 PM
Thread Name: BS: Language Pet Peeves part II
Subject: RE: BS: Language Pet Peeves part II
Thanks, Joe. But Henry Attwell, in "Notes & Queries" (7th Ser.) XI (May 23, 1891), p. 406, may have been the genius.


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