| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
| Moderator: | THEBAY::SYSTEM |
| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1192 |
| Total number of notes: | 42769 |
From the lips of Harvey Leonard, the meteorologist: The clouds will be overspreading the area throughout the evening. From a DEC employee comes the word combo "administrivia", which I had never heard before.
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 65.1 | EIFFEL::CRIMMIN | Tue Apr 23 1985 08:50 | 3 | ||
Alistair MacLean also used the word overspreading in his war thriller "The Guns of Navarone": "Reception was very poor - Brown blamed the violent static on the dark, convoluted thunderheads steadily creeping up astern, now overspreading almost half the sky - but adequate." | |||||
| 65.2 | EIFFEL::CRIMMIN | Tue Apr 23 1985 08:55 | 3 | ||
Let me try that MacLean quote again.... "Brown blamed the violent static on the dark, convoluted thunderheads steadily creeping up astern, now overspreading almost half the sky..." | |||||
| 65.3 | GRAFIX::EPPES | Wed Apr 24 1985 18:55 | 3 | ||
I've heard "administrivia" off and on. It is used in the header for the SF-Lovers Digest, for instance. -- Nina | |||||