From: Paul Lynch <paul@...>
Date: 2006-08-11T21:21:26+09:00
Subject: Re: nonce



On 10 Aug 2006, at 18:25, Trans wrote:

>> I do like the word, though -- etymology is fun!
>
> :-) Definitely. I was quite floored to find an honest ot goodness
> synonym for singleton. And it's obscure enough so it doesn't have any
> significant connotation baggage, which is great.

Unfortunately, nonce has considerable negative baggage in both  
English, and, I believe, Australian.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonce

Wikipedia is about as accurate as usual, but that doesn't really make  
any difference.

Paul