os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com Messaggio archiviato #2061

Da: "Julian Thomas" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> Intestazioni complete
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Oggetto: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: OT: English Usage
Data: Fri, 19 May 2006 11:25:51 -0400
A: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>

In <list-117193@2rosenthals.com>, on 05/19/06
   at 11:19 AM, "Harry Travis" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> typed:

>Confusion begets confusion: You will find  that both "jib" and "jibe" are
>verbs for  "shift from one side of the ship to the other." Accepted by
>some lexicographers, anyway, but it would be interesting to be able to
>get an instant reading from all sailors.

To a sailor, a jib is a foresail.
 
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