Date:  Thu, 9 Nov 1995 17:43:39 -0500

From:  Ronald Butters <amspeech[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ACPUB.DUKE.EDU>

Subject: Re: bougainvillea



On Thu, 9 Nov 1995, Tom Uharriet wrote:

>

> > Why not just look it up in a dictionary?

>

> It was not in my class set of dictionaries.



It was in the first three desk dilctionaries that I looked at. You need

to get better "class . . . dictionaries"!



> I could have driven a few miles to the closest OED, but am glad that I didn't.



I recommend the boxed micro version of the OED. It is cheap; in fact, I

got mine free when I joined soe book club. It is quite helpful.



> These responses were very interesting. After the first few

> responses, I thought I had a good understanding of the plant. Now,

> from all of the responses that followed, we all know quite a bit

> more. I found it particularly interesting how the same word meant

> such different things to different people. Such is language!



Or rather maybe "such is people."