"Bill Turner" wrote in message
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On 15 Dec 2003 15:45:54 -0800, (Richard Cranium)
wrote:
Personally, I usually say "I hight Paul."
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Huh?
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I hight Bill, W6WRT
Bill:
Old and Middle English. Can be used as a passive verb. The sentence above is
"I am called Paul" or "I am named Paul" Longfellow and Byron both used it
in this sense. Blame it on my mother who insisted on reading Caucer to by
defenseless brother and me.
Sorry, it was a feeble attempt to show that "correct" usage and
intelligibility do not always coincide.
Paul AB0SI