Re: "in the meantime"

1998-08-17 Thread Ray Bates
At 8:43 AM -0400 8/17/98, Uncle John wrote: SNIP>>> > >Thanks for the responses to my earlier question about Hc. I'm trying to >teach a friend minimal navigation. For a chronograph we're using GPS. John: You DO mean Chronometer, don't you? A Chronograph is an event timing and recording

"in the meantime"

1998-08-17 Thread Uncle John
I just happened to be writing something and I used the phrase "in the meantime" which, in American english at least, means something like 'during the occurence of something else'. I wonder if the origin of the phrase is temporally related. The limericks are quite clev