Re[2]: [tied] Languages Evolve in Punctuational Bursts

At 4:23:39 PM on Thursday, February 7, 2008, fournet.arnaud
wrote:

> From: Rick McCallister

>> Smoking is from "smoking jacket", American English
>> "tuxedo" --I guess in the day you had to dress up for
>> a date with lung cancer.

> smoking jacket for smoking
> I trust you, (of course !) but
> I'm interesting in a reference
> if you don't mind

Petit Robert s.v. <smoking>. Or Dauzat's Nouveau
Dictionnaire étymologique s.v. <smoking>.

> what is the reason why it should be
> a *smoking* jacket ?

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoking_jacket>

Brian