Yesterday was the first time in 13 years (since we instituted the Quotemeister online) that I did not get an inquiry as to the source of “The Great Gaels of Ireland” quote.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Tales from the Quotemeister
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Do you mean it was the first St. Patrick's Day in 13 years?
ReplyDeleteAnon. No. I checked the calendars for the past few years and there HAVE been St. Patrick's days each year for quite a few years. Maybe hundreds of years even. ;-)
ReplyDeleteThe post means it was the first St. Patrick's day in 13 years that someone hasn't asked the quotemeister about that poem of Chesterton's.
Evidently my ellipsis was not as transparent as I had thought.
ReplyDeleteMust have been a slip of the ellipsis.
ReplyDeleteI've always had grammarphobia. Transparent Ellipsis are (is?) apparently beyond my grammatical ability. Sorry, anon!
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