Hi John, John Forbes wrote: > > Fairy has lots of connotations, not many of them positive, unless your > target market is four year-olds. > > Nowadays I believe your market is more likely to be hard-bitten types with > green eyeshades and a fag stuck permanently to their lower lip.
"Give me a lucifer to light my fag. . ." No, the image is okay, the words are out of date. Just ask me. . . nothing ever seems to mean what it used to! <g> Fags and fairys are out of style, and usage. . . in the U.S. anyhow. > Or is my image of newspaper editors out-of-date? > > Well done with your first front page. > > John Me TOO! <g> > And I vote for Tanja, too. It's spelling, if not it's sound, rhymes with > ganja, too, which takes me back to pleasant if fuzzy memories of Jamaica. Oh no! I've been offline and haven't been following this thread - don't tell me it is a hard J, as in Jamaica! It's a good thing I didn't pronounce it Ton-ya (phonetically) in public! Next thing you'll be telling me it's Tan, as in the color, and 'juh' as an ending. If so, now I will next need the derivation! keith whaley
