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Carorëiel · 03-20-2003, 07:53 PM

And while I'm being a dorky English major:

(also from the OED on-line--an extremely useful tool, if dorky [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img])

"Halfling 1. One not fully grown; a stripling.

1794 Statist. Acc. Scotl., Forfarsh. XII. 304 (Jam.) Wages of a man servant £10..Of a haflin, £5. 1804 R. ANDERSON Cumberld. Ball. 87 She'd little to de, To tek sec a hawflin as he. Mod. Sc. Advt., Baker, Wanted, a stout Halflin, about 3 years at the trade."

03-20-2003, 07:53 PM	#7
Carorëiel Haunting Spirit Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Tennessee Posts: 54	And while I'm being a dorky English major: (also from the OED on-line--an extremely useful tool, if dorky [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]) "Halfling 1. One not fully grown; a stripling. 1794 Statist. Acc. Scotl., Forfarsh. XII. 304 (Jam.) Wages of a man servant £10..Of a haflin, £5. 1804 R. ANDERSON Cumberld. Ball. 87 She'd little to de, To tek sec a hawflin as he. Mod. Sc. Advt., Baker, Wanted, a stout Halflin, about 3 years at the trade." __________________ "Art is our way of keeping track of what we know and have known, secretly, from the beginning."--John Gardner