Klarinet Archive - Posting 000087.txt from 2002/04

From: Karl Krelove <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Continue-to-be-irritated
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 19:19:06 -0500

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Pay [mailto:Tony@-----.uk]
>
> I wonder if it would be correct English to run those last two words
> together, as is done in 'bullshit' and 'chickenshit'?

I can't quote a source either, but I'm sure I've seen this used here (in the
US). (BTW, my Outlook spell checker insists it wants to break it up as
"chickens hit." As, I suppose, in a headline reading "15,000 chickens hit by
trains this year!"

> (The 'ntsh' looks kinda funny if you do, don't you think?-)
>

You must have typed too hastily - the combination isn't there. But it would
look kinda funny, if it had been.

Karl Krelove

---------------------------------------------------------------------

   
     Copyright © Woodwind.Org, Inc. All Rights Reserved    Privacy Policy    Contact charette@woodwind.org