Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 08:26:28 -0500

From: SETH SKLAREY crissiet[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]IPOF.FLA.NET

Subject: Attestations of "Begging the question"



Rudy Troike's colleague, Carl Berkhout wrote:

At lunch one day with a couple of members of the British Library staff I

heard one of them say, "But that just beggars the whole question,

doesn't it?" At least I _think_ the verb was "beggars." Can't imagine

what other verb it could have been.



Carl



Could he have been saying "buggers?"