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Hi, Anton!  Recently you wrote in a message to Anton Shepelev:

AS>  In Louse H. Briesemester's "Island Winds", 


          Uh... "louse" is the singular of "lice".  If you mean "Louise", that
is AFAIK a feminine variant of "Louis" often used in English.  Either way I am
unable to find any reference to this author from where I sit.  I see there's a
shop on Prince Edward Island (+/- 4000 miles away) called "Island Winds" and I
see there's a school in Texas named after A.J. Briesemeister.

          Not to worry.  I had to keep checking my own spelling there....  :-)



AS>  I came upon another interesting nominal use of `part':

AS>       And barometers are considered a part of the standard
AS>       equipment of every home.

AS>  I called it interesting because I should have omitted the
AS>  indefinite article.


          Should you?  I see that in a reply to Alexander you mentioned a head
Which had somehow been disconnected from various other parts of the same body.
But thanks to Miss Langwidge I'm reminded of the words of a 19th century poem:

  
               I am a part of all that I have met.
                                    -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
                 

          Nowadays folks tend to use as few words as possible, and I would
have omitted the indefinite article there too.  OTOH I notice that the extra
letters others don't want to waste often reappear in expressions such as "at
this point time" or "off of", which both I & US grammarians consider to be
redundant.  :-Q




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