At 06:00 PM 09/22/02, Mark D. Lew wrote: >If I'm buying bricks and mortar, I would expect to buy them at a brick and >mortar store. > >This is a basic function of English grammar. There is nothing exceptional >about the "brick and mortar" situation.
Except that a "brick and mortar" store is not a store that *sells* bricks and mortar -- it's a store that's *made of* bricks and mortar. (As opposed to an online store, which may exist only in cyberspace.) A quick and unscientific trip to Google turns up 107,000 hits for "bricks and mortar" and 156,000 hits for "brick and mortar". Aaron. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
