Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Re: WALL PIER, PILASTER OR COLUMN

.....but....teacher!!!!!......Bill started it!!!!!!
 
Has it really come to this?  If everybody will calm down and discuss engineering you will get a popsicle after dinner. 

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Bill Polhemus <bill@polhemus.cc> wrote:
Scott Maxwell wrote:
Last time I checked, those were still English words,...
Okay, you're right. I stand magnificently corrected, and hope you find much joy in your winning this battle of - dare I say it? - WORDS today.

Meanwhile, ask all the people in your office to define "espagnolette" without resorting to any outside references. Remind them, of course, that it's an ENGLISH WORD, and since you're victorious in this brief debate, you should take great pleasure in your superiority over THEM as well as ME.
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