The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #28486   Message #357314
Posted By: sophocleese
14-Dec-00 - 05:46 PM
Thread Name: BS: Humour, Impromptu lines
Subject: RE: BS: Humour, Impromptu lines
I was reminded of this from the thread about words that are fun to say.

A woman at our song circle sang a song which had the word purloined in it. She commented about how much fun it was to sing it and that started a brief discussion about its meaning. Finally somebody said that just as purloin is to remove or take away to purvey is to bring ao take to: purloin and purvey. I quickly asked if it worked like that with sirloin and survey.