From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2006-08-12T03:53:13+09:00
Subject: Re: nonce

On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 03:15:10AM +0900, Trans wrote:
> 
> Chad Perrin wrote:
> > I've lived in Minnesota, Montana, California, Hawaii, Florida, Colorado,
> > and Italy, and have visited a fair number of other places as well.  I
> > don't think I've forgotten any of the places I've lived, and am not
> > about to even try to list the places I've visited.  In all that time,
> > I've heard two other people use the term "nonce" in casual
> > conversation, and used it a fair bit myself.  It's not common, but it
> > does happen -- and I've never had to explain to someone what the word
> > meant.  Frankly, this is the first time it has ever occurred to me that
> > I might say it to someone that doesn't know what it means.
> 
> Fascinating. So you were actaully born with a priori knowledge of the
> word nonce.

Of course not.  The first time I ran across it was in print.  I think I
was six at the time.

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