From: John Cowan (jcowan@reutershealth.com)
Date: Thu Mar 13 2003 - 12:50:35 EST
Padraic Brown scripsit:
> "Kerno variant" indeed! More like the original
> from which the English bastardised version comes
> from. It is a vague recollection of a
> semilegendary event in the early life of John II.
"Variant" was used in a reciprocal sense in which if A is a variant of B,
then B is a variant of A.
-- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all. There are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful. --_The Hobbit_
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