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From: jeff@rtech.ARPA (Jeff Lichtman)
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Subject: Re: Proving (the rule)
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Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 11:27:20 EST
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> 
> 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