From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 08:10:18 -0400, "Sea Wasp (Ryk E.   
   Spoor)"  wrote in   
    in   
   rec.arts.sf.composition:   
      
   > On 9/2/14, 1:16 AM, Brian M. Scott wrote:   
      
   >> 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   
   >> .   
      
   > I wouldn't. I have NEVER seen that word used outside of a   
   > UK context.   
      
   So what?  That doesn’t mean that it’s grossly unfamiliar or   
   uninterpretable in context.  Must everything be familiar to   
   the point of blandness?   
      
   [...]   
      
   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)