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From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
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Subject: Re: At long last, we have found the stargate archives!
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Date: Mon, 18-May-87 09:06:09 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 18 09:06:09 1987
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Summary: "heckle": are we being selective choosing definitions?				(another world heard from.)

Purely in the interest of correct communication in the American
English language, and to disabuse the falsely righteous.  (Of
c o u r s e ,  I couldn't be talking about  y o u .)  I rarely
get around to this group any more.

In article <236@brandx.rutgers.edu> (somebody) writes:
>Incidently, Chamber's Etymological English Dictionary (1968), defines:
>          heckle, hek'l, v.t. to comb: to ply with embarrassing
>                  questions (as at an election). - n. the same
>                  as hackle - n. heck'ler. [M.E. hekelen.]

Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language, World
Publishing Company:
	heck.le (hek'l) vt. -led, -ling [ME. hekelin] to harass (a
	speaker) with questions or taunts -- heck'ler n.

Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam Company:
	heck.le \'hek-!e!l\ vt heck.ling \-(!e!-)li!ng!\ [ME hekelen,
					 _
	fr. heckele hackle; akin to OHG hako hook -- more at HOOK]:
	to harass and try to disconcert with questions, challenges,
	or gibes: BADGER. \fB syn \fR see BAIT --
	heck.ler \-(!e!)l!e!r\ n

[ed note: for want of 8 bits, !e! is a "schwa", or upside-down e, the
generic vowel sound (my phrasing).  !ng! is, of course, the combined
n-g symbol ("hang"), the "ng" sound.]

[Who, me?  Being righteous about righteousness?  Nah...]

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