Miata Mailing List: October 1997, Message #146
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From: 	Dan Scolnick <dans@interport.net>

Subject: Re: Another miscreant bites the dust

Date: 	Wed, 1 Oct 1997 14:21:41 +0000



To which I respond,



"Who, are you?"!

/^\dans





On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, David or Maggie Turkheimer wrote:



> Perhaps, a la Lewis Carroll, in "Jabberwocky", Nick was using a portmanteau

> word:

> 

> aggressive + egregiouly = aggregiously

> 

> which in his case makes sense.

> 

> David Turkheimer

> Team English major in former life.

> 

> At 09:30 PM 9/30/97 +0000, you wrote:

> >Previously on miscreant, David Okamoto <davo@lsil.com> said...

> >

> >> What is "...aggregiously"?

> >

> >It's a mis-spelled word, but at least he used it incorrectly.

> >

> >-------------

> >"Egregious"

> >

> >>From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

> >

> >Egregious \E*gre"gious\ (?; 277), a. [L. egregius; lit., separated or chosen

> >from the herd, i. e., distinguished, excellent; e out + grex, gregis, herd.

> >See Gregarious.] Surpassing; extraordinary; distinguished (in a bad sense);

> >-- formerly used with words importing a good quality, but now joined with

> >words having a bad sense; as, an egregious rascal; an egregious ass; an

> >egregious mistake. 

> >

> >The egregious impudence of this fellow. --Bp. Hall. 

> >

> >His [Wyclif's] egregious labors are not to be neglected. --Milton. 

> >

> >>From WordNet (r) 1.5 Database (wn)

> >

> >egregious adj : conspicuously bad or offensive or reprehensible: "a crying

> >shame"; "an egregious lie"; "a flagrant violation of human rights"; "gross

> >injustice"; "rank treachery" [syn: crying, flagrant, gross, rank] 

> >

> >

> >	-John

> >

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> >Team "I have no idea what those dimple things on the windshield frame are

> >for."

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> >

> >

> >

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