Date:  Wed, 7 Jun 1995 14:18:14 CDT

From:  Randy Roberts <robertsr[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]EXT.MISSOURI.EDU>

Subject: sixes and sevens



   There is a definition//etymology for the phrase "at sixes and sevens",

   meaning disorder and confusion, in William and Mary Morris, Morris

   Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins (New York: Harper and Row, 1977)

   p. 30. The origin is supposed to come from a dice game and is

   recorded in Canterbury Tales.



   Randy Roberts

   University of Missouri-Columbia

   robertsr[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ext.missouri.edu