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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