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| Odo Proudfoot was wrong |
| 03 Aug 18 19:13:43 |
XPost: rec.arts.books.tolkien From: rimagen@toast.net http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=39444 Apparently, the plural really should be “Proudfoots” rather than “Proudfeet”! So, now that we’ve solved that one—has anyone analyzed Bilbo’s “half of you half as well” remark to determine whether or not it /did/ come out to a compliment? --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2) |
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