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Re: I could hardly fail to disagree with you less



Patricia M. Godfrey wrote:

Avrom Fischer wrote:
has broken away from the Peloton
In which of the two senses in the OED are you using this? The obsolete "a small ball" or the (then) current =platoon, a small body of soldiers? Neither seems terribly appropriate.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peloton -- Martin J. Osborne Department of Economics 150 St. George Street University of Toronto Toronto M5S 3G7 Canada http://www.economics.utoronto.ca martin.osborne@xxxxxxxx http://www.economics.utoronto.ca/osborne +1 416-978-5094 Have you seen http://econtheory.org