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Para anchors dont work in breaking waves
(JAXAshby) wrote in message ...
ah, so if the word had some particular meaning back in the early eighteenth
century it has the same meaning and usage today?
btw, dood, you missed the nuance of the early 18th century meaning.
? dood? are *you* now stating that the product you are pushing for profit
works as you have stated as shown by your use of a three hundred year old
meaning of a word no longer used in that fashion.
dood, it sounds like you are trying to justify your sloppy word usage. that
gives one and all cause for pause about every last thing you might be claiming
about that product you are trying to turn a buck on.
dood, it is the third millenium. try to keep up.
para anchor manufacturers are prolific
advertisers.
jax
"prolific"? it seems you don't know what the word means. Here, let me
help
you out.
prolific
\Pro*lif"ic\, 1. Having the quality of generating; producing young or
fruit;
generative; fruitful; productive; -- applied to plants producing fruit,
animals
producing young, etc.; -- usually with the implied idea of frequent or
numerous
production; as, a prolific tree, female, and the like.
2. Serving to produce; fruitful of results; active; as, a prolific brain; a
controversy prolific of evil.
prolific
2b this age being not very prolifique of customers for such a
commodity.PEPYS.
3 By Niles prolific torrents delug'd o'er. ad1738.
Shorter Oxford Dic
I assumed you would have known the above, as in 1738 you people still
spoke the Queens English, shame on you.
Bryan
jax, you obviously have a small dic, I on the other hand have the shorter oxford, which serves me in good stead, because it is understood by the educated that if it is in the oxford, its usage may be made in that context, unless the particular usage is designated obsolete, which,in the context i have used, it is not.
it originates from the latin, prolificus, in use from c600 to c1500,
from the earlier latin proles meaning offspring.
It should be pronounced proli.fik
I am sure that you would agree with me that the americanisation of the
english language is something that should be resisted, and all
perpetrators tared and feathered.
bryan
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