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?"