XPost: alt.usage.english, alt.english.usage   
   From: mb@nospam.net   
      
   On 28/08/2025 08:23, J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
   > I thought this could be of interest to lexicography, so I copied several   
   > bits of the recent discussion to a lexicographer I know. Here's his   
   > reply (between === lines). I told him I thought he might find it   
   > interesting.   
      
      
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)