Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 15:13:30 EST

From: Larry Horn LHORN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU

Subject: Re: one as a pronoun?



Jim Crotty ends a message with...



acquaintances probably did. However, I've heard it used by all sorts of Brits

from all sorts of backgrounds coming over to "the States." Maybe it's a

kneejerk reflex when Brits encounter the informal American tongue. I've also

heard it a lot on BBC broadcasts. Maybe just another example of a snob (sans

nobilite) trying to emulate nobility? ^^^^^^^^^^

^^^^^^^^



--incidentally, one more stock folk-etymology, pseudo-acronym dept. (That's

the department with shelves stocking e.g. "posh" and "fuck", although it might

be objected that those are REAL pseudo-acronyms, while "snob" s.nob. for

"sans nobilite'" or Lat. "sine nobilitate" is more of a pseudo quasi-acronym,

or vice versa.) --Larry