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From: dorayme on 18 Apr 2010 03:40
In article <rq8ls5dmmpntn991ghelsepfkpgopdfd8l(a)4ax.com>,
masonc(a)invalid.invalid wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 09:51:28 +1000, dorayme <dorayme(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> >In article <jmgks5tar417nkfhvq3tlqmu80dr70160j(a)4ax.com>,
> > invalidmasonc(a)invalid.invalid wrote:
> >
> >Please change your email address to start with "mason".
>
> What doreyme wants, doreyme gets.
>

Thank you. It is very important for me to see what is heading my
way from a distance. If "mason" begins the approaching object, I
am ready, having triggered certain proprietary mason-reception
modules.

--
dorayme
From: Ed Mullen on 18 Apr 2010 11:49
Stan Brown wrote:
> Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:48:29 -0400 from Ed Mullen<ed(a)edmullen.net>:
>>
>> Stan Brown wrote:
>>> Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:32:45 -0400 from Ed Mullen<ed(a)edmullen.net>:
>>>> Isn't it "forebearers"?
>>>>
>>>
>>> No.
>>>
>>
>> I think it is:
>>
>> http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/forebearer
>
> It's wrong.
>

Ahh. Well, I just checked my 1965 edition of the Random House
Dictionary and, indeed, the plural is forebears, just as dorayme used
it. I sit corrected! :-)

--
Ed Mullen
http://edmullen.net
After eating, do amphibians have to wait one hour before getting out of
the water?
From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn on 18 Apr 2010 12:18
Ed Mullen wrote:

> Stan Brown wrote:
>> Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:48:29 -0400 from Ed Mullen<ed(a)edmullen.net>:
>>> Stan Brown wrote:
>>>> Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:32:45 -0400 from Ed Mullen<ed(a)edmullen.net>:
>>>>> Isn't it "forebearers"?
>>>> No.
>>> I think it is:
>>>
>>> http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/forebearer
>>
>> It's wrong.

It isn't.

> Ahh. Well, I just checked my 1965 edition of the Random House
> Dictionary and, indeed, the plural is forebears, just as dorayme used
> it. I sit corrected! :-)

JFTR, M-W has it correct, too:
<http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/forebears>


PointedEars
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