XPost: alt.usage.english, rec.arts.books.tolkien   
   From: not.jim.silverton@verizon.net   
      
   On 8/29/2011 3:35 PM, Mike Lyle wrote:   
   > On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:55:29 +0100, Adam Funk   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2011-08-29, Peter Moylan wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Leslie Danks wrote:   
   >>>> Adam Funk wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> On 2011-08-28, Mike Lyle wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> I'm half inclined to think that may catch on eventually. The folks on   
   >>>>>> the BBC already say "cannons" as the plural of "cannon". A.U.E. has   
   >>>>>> often noted that many little lumps and bumps of our language are being   
   >>>>>> smoothed out: "slayed" instead of "slew", a chciken is most often   
   >>>>>> "deboned" instead of "boned" -- that kind of thing.   
   >>>>> Well, it is a bit of faff to remember which of those plain verbs refer   
   >>>>> to removal (boning chickens, stoning olives).  We need a good Germanic   
   >>>>> prefix equivalent to German "ent-" to disambiguate these things.   
   >>>>> ;-)   
   >>>>   
   >>>> There us "entrail" for trains.   
   >>>>   
   >>> I read this immediately after your posting about tube stew. I'm glad I'd   
   >>> already finished my evening meal.   
   >>   
   >> For the sake of AUE you could at least have said "supper", "dinner",   
   >> "tea", or whatever.   
   >   
   > You suggesting he lacks pluck?   
   >   
   Not that I'm an admirer of Alfred Lord T, but I really actually recalled   
   "cannons to the right of them" and had to look up the poem to find it   
   was "cannon".   
      
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