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Re: [OM] If one could dream...

Subject: Re: [OM] If one could dream...
From: Donald <d1956m198d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:01:03 +0000
On 10/03/2011 20:04, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> With apologies to Mr. Shaw:  "Forgive him, Caesar -- he is a barbarian and 
> considers that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature."
>
> --Bob
>
>
> On Mar 10, 2011, at 12:31 AM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
>
>> Obselete preposition - one of those archaic forms of which the murkins are 
>> so fond, as with 'gotten'.
>

Quite so, but 'anent' is much used in Scotland, and considered part of 
our everyday usage, wherever it came from.

D.

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