On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 15:28:24 -0500, Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Friday 07 October 2005 03:01 am, Steve Holden wrote: >> OK, so how do you account for the execresence "That will give you a >> savings of 20%", which usage is common in America? > >In America, anyway, "savings" is a collective abstract noun >(like "physics" or "mechanics"), there's no such >noun as "saving" (that's present participle of "to save" >only). How did you expect that sentence to be rendered? >Why is it an "execresence"? > >By the way, dict.org doesn't think "execresence" is a word, >although I interpret the neologism as meaning something like >"execrable utterance": > >dict.org said: >> No definitions found for 'execresence'! > Gotta be something to do with .exe ;-) Regards, Bengt Richter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
