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Conference thebay::joyoflex

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

877.0. "Loss for words..." by KAHALA::PRESTON (Oder, Technik von Vorsprung...) Fri Mar 22 1991 18:26

    In the course of conversation the other day, the question came up about
    the correct term for the process employed to install (for example) the
    star-shaped plaques in the "Walk of Fame" in Hollywood. Inset, inlay,
    etc. don't quite seem to do it...
    
    -and- 
    
    Anyone know the term (title?) for the person who accompanies the Queen
    to pay for her purchases? No, it's not purser...
    
    Thanks,
    
    Ed
    
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877.1No problemULYSSE::WADEFri Mar 22 1991 22:256
							    
>>	Inset, inlay, etc. don't quite seem to do it...

	Yes, they do do it- they are perfectly adequate 
	words, whether used as nouns or verbs.  
    
877.2JIT081::DIAMONDThis note is illegal tender.Sat Mar 23 1991 10:306
    If you're looking for something that rhymes with purser and has
    approximately the right meaning, it could be "bursar."
    
    I don't know if that's the actual term or not.  However, compared
    with the Queen's recent effort to try and mostly speak English,
    this is certainly no worser.
877.3A couple of stabsWOOK::LEEWook... Like 'Book' with a 'W'Sat Mar 23 1991 15:429
    re: Walk of Fame
    
    "Instellation" is the obvious choice in this case.
    
    Re: Queen's Purse
    
    The Minister of Finance? :-)
    
    Wook
877.4ToucheSMURF::SMURF::BINDERSimplicitas gratia simplicitatisSun Mar 24 1991 16:114
    The person who accompanies the Queen and pays for her purchases is an
    equerry, I believe.
    
    -d
877.5Rich? 8^)SEAPEN::PHIPPSDTN 225.4959Sun Mar 24 1991 19:070
877.6The Queen's "purser"PAOXCS::HILLMon Mar 25 1991 13:083
    I think the money the equerry uses comes from the Chamberlain.
    
    Nick
877.7Don't leave home without it...ODIXIE::LAMBKERick Lambke @FLA dtn 392-2220Mon Mar 25 1991 18:0613
    > Anyone know the term (title?) for the person who accompanies the Queen
    > to pay for her purchases? No, it's not purser...
    
    Actually, I recently put a great deal of thought into the question "who
    pays for George Bush's purchases?" 
    
    The answer was revealed on network news: George is his own burser. 
    
    While visiting an elementry school, a young child asked Bush, "how do I
    know you are really George Bush? Prove it."  Naturally, George was
    stymied momentarily, until the obvious answer came to him: he pulled
    out his American Express card! (I wonder if it was the Corporate Card,
    and if so, would it say "White House" under his name?)
877.8SHALOT::ANDERSONWar is SadMon Mar 25 1991 20:236
>    Anyone know the term (title?) for the person who accompanies the Queen
>    to pay for her purchases? No, it's not purser...
    
	It wouldn't happen to be the Duke of Edinburgh, would it?

		-- C