| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
| Moderator: | THEBAY::SYSTEM |
| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1192 |
| Total number of notes: | 42769 |
How did "trot" come to mean "a literal translation of a foreign text"?
(The definition is from Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary.)
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| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 739.1 | Switch to the easier horse | MINAR::BISHOP | Mon Nov 27 1989 21:02 | 5 | |
"Trot" and "pony" (with the same meaning) both come from
the image of a spare horse for a rider, which is switched
to when the first horse becomes tired.
-John Bishop
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