XPost: alt.books.cs-lewis, alt.usage.english   
   From: john-dean@fraglineone.net   
      
   Steve Hayes wrote:   
   > In the Puffin edition of "Prince Caspian" C.S. Lewis at one point   
   > uses the term "hair-brained".   
   >   
   > I always understood that the correct term was "hare-brained", and   
   > would have thought that a professor of English literature would know   
   > the difference.   
   >   
   > Is this found in all editions, ot was it just a misprint?   
      
   I'm not sure he was actually a "professor of English literature". He was at   
   one point a professor of Medieval and Renaissance Literature.   
   No doubt he was aware that many authors before him had used "hair-brained" -   
   OED has various cites.   
   Whether that was what he intended here or was a misprint allowed through by   
   the editor is unclear unless someone has access to a definitive version.   
   Is this the quote?   
   ""How then?" said Sopespian. "We hold the enemy in our fist here. Miraz   
   would never be so hair-brained as to throw away his advantage on a combat."   
   "   
   --   
   John Dean   
   Oxford   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)