<quote who='John Handelaar' when='20/02/2009 19:20'> > 2009/2/20 Stéphane Deschamps <lists at nota-bene.org>: >> [1] "To be on the dole": old expression learnt by non-english speakers >> in old books when studying english lit. There must be a >> less-than-one-century-old expression, I'm sure. > > Plenty, but UK and Irish English still use this one more than any other. By my troth, Siree, I was less old-fashioned than methought. -- Stéphane Deschamps perso: http://www.nota-bene.org/ org: http://www.pompage.net/