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Snaf Started conversation Aug 17, 1999
Loath as I am to staunch the flow of generous sentiments from Mr Bywater's column, I feel compelled to point out that a person (or persona) who employs a butler and consumes Krug, room temperature or otherwise, would surely not have facial characteristics suggestive of "a strict religious code of self-denial".
Instead that chiselled appearance may be better described as aesthetic, i.e. "relating to the sense of what is beautiful".
Blame the word-of-the-day concept for my pedantry before you hurl those handfuls of rotting vegetables ('Bywater's vocabulary has gone napiform')
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Spartus Posted Aug 19, 1999
Hi Mark.
Actually, I believe that 'loath' is the preferred spelling in that situtation:
http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=loath
-or-
http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=loathe
I think the first of the two spellings fits the context better.
Pedantry, don't talk to me about pedantry....
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