See if this definition hurts your head as much as mine
Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 6:12 pm
This is a definintion from Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable
This is also excatly as it is written in the book ... save for maybe the font .
That.Seven 'that's' may follow one another and make
sense , as the following verse :
For it be known that we may safely write
Or say that 'that that' that that man wrote was right;
Nay, e'en that that that , that 'that THAT' has
followed,
Through six repeats, the grammar's rule has
hallowed;
And that that that that that 'that THAT' began
Repeated seven times is right, deny who can .
Or this in prose:
'My Lords, with humble submission,that that I say
is this: that that that 'that that' that gentleman
has advanced is not that that should he have proved
to your lordships.'
Spectator,No.86(1714)
This is also excatly as it is written in the book ... save for maybe the font .
That.Seven 'that's' may follow one another and make
sense , as the following verse :
For it be known that we may safely write
Or say that 'that that' that that man wrote was right;
Nay, e'en that that that , that 'that THAT' has
followed,
Through six repeats, the grammar's rule has
hallowed;
And that that that that that 'that THAT' began
Repeated seven times is right, deny who can .
Or this in prose:
'My Lords, with humble submission,that that I say
is this: that that that 'that that' that gentleman
has advanced is not that that should he have proved
to your lordships.'
Spectator,No.86(1714)
