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the ink stained wretch question?



----- Original Message -----
From: Sherry
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 9:24 AM
Subject: didn't someone already answer the ink stained wretch question?

I could have sworn it was answered on day one.
Sherry@xxxxxxxx

No one has pinned this down yet. I gave up on the Web yesterday
and dug out my old senior thesis circa 1960 on Dr. Johnson. He
defined "lexicographer" in his Dictionary as "a harmless drudge,"
not an ink-stained wretch. Curses.I will try e-mailing William Safire
and the Spectator as per Bill Troop's suggestion.

Irene