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From: mprc@troi.cc.rochester.edu (M. Price)
Subject: Re: English importation of words (was Re: Is '#' a "pound sign" or what?)
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In <4hi5cr$mle@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> mnb20@cam.ac.uk (Mark Baker) writes:

>In article <4hht78$nqb@whitbeck.ncl.ac.uk>,
>	Andy Holden <A.B.Holden@ncl.ac.uk> writes:

>> Its not as bad as Fayre (as in Summer Fayre, Christmas Fayre etc) 
>>meaning the same as fair but spelt that way to look "olde worlde".

>That's not as bad as "ye old bunne shoppe". I resent being called an
>old bun shop, particularly a misspelt one.

  Except that's not supposed to be a y. So you don't say "ye," you say
"the."

-- 
"A woman is not a basket you place your buns in to keep them warm, not a 
brood hen you can slip duck eggs under, not a purse, holding the coins
of your descendants till you spend them in wars." (Marge Piercy)
mp
