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Re: [PLUG] Re: mutt/gpg/procmail question (Walt Mankowski)
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I've got a dumb question since we've gotten this far off topic. I know
that pronounciation was slightly different two hundred twenty five
years ago. Could the New England dialect at the time made loose sound
more correct than lose?
bs
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Mike Chirico wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 04:31:29PM -0400, Mark M. Hoffman wrote:
> > > Sorry, couldn't resist:
> > >=20
> > > * pinkee@cavegirl.org <pinkee@cavegirl.org> [2004-08-12 13:57:38 -0400]:
> > > > "This is the established Order of Things, when a Nation has grown to su=
> > ch
> > > > an height of Power as to become dangerous to Mankind, she never fails to
> > > > loose her Wisdom, her Justice and her Moderation, and with these she ne=
> > ver
> > > > fails to loose her Power." - John Adams
> > > ^^^^^
> > >=20
> > > John Adams wrote that? What's his slashdot UID?
> >
> > Well, spelling *was* a little more creative back then... :)
>
> There is an image of the quote in John Adams' handwriting at the following
> link.
>
> http://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/aea/cfm/doc.cfm?id=A2_35
>
> Apparently, he did write loose.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mike Chirico
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