Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rtech.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!unisoft!mtxinu!rtech!jeff From: jeff@rtech.ARPA (Jeff Lichtman) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Proving (the rule) Message-ID: <196@rtech.ARPA> Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 11:27:20 EST Article-I.D.: rtech.196 Posted: Fri Mar 1 11:27:20 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Mar-85 03:07:42 EST References: <> <258@unm-cvax.UUCP> <486@ptsfa.UUCP> <1783@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Organization: Relational Technology, Berkeley CA Lines: 14 > > Sometimes these old phrases get reinterpreted or even altered as words > change meaning. For instance there's the phrase "stark naked" which was > originally "start naked." > > --Lee Gold In the phrase "spit and image", "spit" is an archaic usage meaning "exact copy". I've heard and seen "spittin' image", and even "spitting image" (it's good not to drop one's g's, but how can one drop it when it wasn't there in the first place?). -- Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.) aka Swazoo Koolak