Re: [tied] Seldom

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 18972
Date: 2003-02-21

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
To: "Glen Gordon" <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 1:54 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] More nonsense: Is English /d/ truely voiced?



> (A native speaker of English who uses 'seldom' as an
> adjective?!)

Not a seldom thing [:-)] in North American English, but OED has a modern quote from William Golding's _Free Fall_ as well: "My seldom night terrors". (Formerly, e.g. in Elizabethan English, it was perfectly normal usage.) What's good enough for a Nobel Prize winner ought to be considered good enough for Glen, I suppose.

Piotr