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RE: [ST] Postillion
- Subject: RE: [ST] Postillion
- From: Neil Tracey <Neil.Tracey@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 09:51:40 +0100
a pleasure ....:-)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Tynan [mailto:keith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 03 August 2001 09:07
> To: ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [ST] Postillion
>
>
> > From: Neil Tracey <Neil.Tracey@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ...
> > >>postillion??
> > a person who rides a pair of horses that draw a coach??
> > haven't heard that word in use since I read Dirk Bogarde's book!
> >
> > From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Kevin=20Smith?= <ksmith955@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > I thought it was the guy who sat at on top of the
> > coach in a sufficiently exposed position to be struck
> > by lightning. But if that's correct, what do you call
> > the bloke who rides the horses who draw the coach
> > driven by the coachman on top which (NOT WHOM
> > - -careful!) the postillion sits?
>
> Okay, okay,
>
> So I got tripped up by a family Malapropism.... It certainly
> wasn't the
> first time, and I daresay it wont be the last.
>
> (FWIW, the shorter OED gives one option as the rider of the
> back horse (of
> two) drawing a coach - so it's almost there ~:)
>
> Thanks for those of you who were quick to cast nasturtiums [sic] on my
> prose...
>
> Regards,
> --
> BRG
> email: keith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> '00 Sprint ST BRG 'Wolfram'
>
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