From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 03:11:42 +0100, Jacey Bedford   
    wrote in   
    in   
   rec.arts.sf.composition:   
      
   [...]   
      
   > My (American) editor didn't think boffin was an American   
   > word and asked me to change it. Oh dear.   
      
   I think that your editor is oversensitive.  I really would   
   invest a little auctorial credit in holding out for   
   .   
      
   Brian   
   --   
   It was the neap tide, when the baga venture out of their   
   holes to root for sandtatties.  The waves whispered   
   rhythmically over the packed sand: haggisss, haggisss,   
   haggisss.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)