[Theforum] Re: survey feedback

Martin martin at members.evolt.org
Sat Nov 24 19:42:05 CST 2001


aardvark wrote on 25/11/01 1:28 am

>as other evolters will tell you, i'm not surly in real life...

True dat. Although only when you know where your towel
is...


>or churlish might be a better word, if you prefer the 16th century meaning 
>of 
>surly over the modern meaning...

16th century? It was old then.

(Churl was an English social class waaaaay back in the 10th century
at least, and 'Churlish' was used in the King James bible, whose
compilers deliberately used somewhat archaic usages)

Cheers
Martin

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