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From: "Guy Barry" <guy.ba...@blueyonder.co.uk>
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"M Winther" <m...@swipnet.se> wrote in message
news:501518a8$0$4125$c83e3ef6@weathergirl-read.tele2.net...
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> "Guy Barry" <guy.ba...@blueyonder.co.uk> skrev i meddelandet
> news:xX7Rr.512281$%k.8054@fx20.am4...

> > I'm familiar with all those usages.  I was asking about the term
> > "hackney-eyed", which appears to be non-standard.

> It is obviously a misunderstanding. Why get hung up on trifles?

Well, the word in the subject line is "hackney-eyed", and I got the
impression that you were familiar with the word.  Are you?

--
Guy Barry