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Isabelle Cecchini
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| Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 12:10 am
Post subject: gin shooting, anyone? |
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Hello
I came across a puzzling phrase in an article in today's Guardian, about
Cannes and film-making,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1481866,00.html
I understood that a new British film, starring Dame Judi Dench and Cate
Blanchett would start "gin shooting this summer".
I've looked in the NODE and the AHD4 for enlightenment, but they were
not really helpful.
It was a good ten minutes before I finally got it.
"... Notes From a Scandal will be gin shooting this summer..."
I'm so happy with my very own and very first case of mishy-phen!
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Isabelle Cecchini |
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John O'Flaherty
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| Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 2:55 am
Post subject: Re: gin shooting, anyone? |
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Isabelle Cecchini wrote:
| Quote: | Hello
I came across a puzzling phrase in an article in today's Guardian,
about
Cannes and film-making,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1481866,00.html
I understood that a new British film, starring Dame Judi Dench and
Cate
Blanchett would start "gin shooting this summer".
I've looked in the NODE and the AHD4 for enlightenment, but they were
not really helpful.
It was a good ten minutes before I finally got it.
"... Notes From a Scandal will be gin shooting this summer..."
I'm so happy with my very own and very first case of mishy-phen!
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This is just present tense of "be gun shooting". It happens to people
who be gun-toting. :-)
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john |
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Mark Brader
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| Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 4:14 am
Post subject: Re: gin shooting, anyone? |
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Isabelle Cecchini writes:
| Quote: | It was a good ten minutes before I finally got it.
"... Notes From a Scandal will be gin shooting this summer..."
I'm so happy with my very own and very first case of mishy-phen!
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Very nice! But it's not actually a mishy-phen, as there is no hyphen.
Donna previously suggested "mishy phen", with a space, for this case.
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Mark Brader, Toronto |"--", Paul said, and then repeated it for emphasis.
msb@vex.net | --Spider Robinson, "Lifehouse" |
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