strathspey@strathspey.org:44572

Jan E Rudge

RE: swotting, swatting not just dances

March 8, 2006, 5:17 p.m. (Message 44572, in reply to message 44533)

Fiona wrote:
> Becky writes about swotting and its misuse as a word.
> I'm not sure I follow her down the "wrong" track.
>
> Most people I know have at one time or another swotted
> up on dances, and most appropriately given the word's origin!


I think that was the point...  The original post to which
Becky was replying used the word "swat", when "swot" was
probably intended.

Regards,

Jan

A fellow pedant, from Beaconsfield, UK