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Posted by Honar the librarian on 2005-12-13 17:42:57 +0000

Not to rain on your parade or anything, G lib, but you're on your own with this one--note most recent usage quotation date. From the beloved OED,(money,n. (and a.)): 3. In pl. (now chiefly in legal and quasi-legal parlance). Sums or quantities of money. Also (occas.) with sing. concord: a sum or quantity of money (now rare, perh. obs.). c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.): 2 Macc. (Douce 369(2)) iii. 6 Tolde to hym the tresorie in Jerusalem for to be ful with moneys [L. pecuniis] vnnoumbreable. 1593 Acct. Bk. W. Morton f. 69, Reseuet..iii scor ane stane of tolone ane pound les, of moneyes is sum Ic honderis xxxiiii lib. 4s. 1600 SHAKESPEARE Merch. V. I. iii. 115 You come to me, and you say, Shylocke, we would haue moneyes. 1625 BACON Ess. (new ed.) 246 No Man will Lend his Moneyes farre off, nor put them into Vnknown Hands. 1632 W. LITHGOW Totall Disc. Trav. IV. 140 [He] furnished him with great moneys, and other necessaries. 1734 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. (1827) VIII. XIX. v. 163 To make him a present of the monies arising from that sale. 1794 R. CUMBERLAND Jew II. ii. 24, Why truly, monies is a good thing. 1819 SCOTT Ivanhoe I. x*. 208 ‘O,’ said the Jew, ‘you are come to pay monies... And from whom dost thou bring it?’ 1822 BYRON Werner II. ii, But to steal The moneys of a slumbering man! 1865 Morning Star 3 Feb. 3/5 A young woman, was charged..with stealing from the person of Robert Tharston,..7s. 6d., his moneys. 1871 R. ELLIS tr. Catullus Poems xxix. 22 Is not all his act To swallow monies, empty purses heap on heap? 1927 A. H. MCNEILE Introd. New Test. 132 Schmirdel objects that it would have been quite irrational to convey monies from South Galatia to Jerusalem by way of Macedonia. 1959 Times Rev. Industry Mar. 4/3 There is an ambivalence in the claims on promotional moneys, for the furtherance of distribution on the one hand and for the extension of advertising on the other. 1990 J. MCGAHERN Amongst Women 55 He..started to tot up all the monies he presently held against the expenses he had. Monies recieved from pledge drive would seem to fit def. 3.

Posted by pamsterdam on 2005-12-13 20:22:18 +0000

I'm so glad someone smarter than me posted a convinving rebuttal. Thanks, Honar!

Posted by G lib on 2005-12-13 20:37:07 +0000

[crosses arms and pouts]That still doesn't mean that I have to like it![/crosses arms and pouts] Thanks, H, you're right...

Posted by pamsterdam on 2005-12-13 20:38:36 +0000

Dude, I am so intimidated by you, I was ready to stop using the term altogether. G: The sky is green, Pamsterdam. Pamsterdam: ...okay...

Posted by Honar the librarian on 2005-12-13 20:49:36 +0000

Don't sell yourself short, Pamsterdam. Fortunately, among my many, many deep psychological quirks, the whole cringworth word thing isn't one of them. I am perfectly happy to say ointment. and hazlenut. and panties. It was unclear if the stain on Jane's panties was from nutella sexcapades (Johnny has a thing for hazlenut), or from the ointment she'd been using to clear up her genital warts, or possibly from the far more prosaic klingon.

Posted by pamsterdam on 2005-12-13 20:59:44 +0000

I would list all the words that don't make me cringe, but I think I'd make Null Protocol blush.

Posted by Null Protocol on 2005-12-13 21:06:03 +0000

This thread = rad.

Posted by frame609 on 2005-12-13 22:02:50 +0000

Seriously. The Klingon reference alone is gold.

Posted by dawnbixtler on 2005-12-14 00:14:11 +0000

That should be "Jane's MOIST panties was from nutella"...