Delia Hits the Bigtime
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ellenkushnerYes, my spies really are everywhere. Hal Davis, Rewrite Editor for the Dayton Daily News, forwarded this from Wordsmith.org:
Subject: A.Word.A.Day--chaffer
This week's theme: verbs.
chaffer (CHAF-uhr) verb tr., intr.
1. To haggle; to bargain.
2. To bandy words; to chatter.
noun
Bargaining or haggling.
[From Middle English chaffare, eventually from Old English ceap
(trade, purchase), precursor of English cheap + faru (journey).]
Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=chaffer
-Anu Garg (garg AT wordsmith.org)
"I chaffered with the king of those people, who was a wise and far-sighted
woman, and brought her to understand that it would be much to her
advantage to accept from me half the arms and ammunition I had brought
with me."
Delia Sherman; The Parwat Ruby; Fantasy & Science Fiction (Cornwall,
Connecticut); June 1999. [It was reprinted in that year's YEAR'S BEST FANTASY & HORROR, as I recall - ek]
Subject: A.Word.A.Day--chaffer
This week's theme: verbs.
chaffer (CHAF-uhr) verb tr., intr.
1. To haggle; to bargain.
2. To bandy words; to chatter.
noun
Bargaining or haggling.
[From Middle English chaffare, eventually from Old English ceap
(trade, purchase), precursor of English cheap + faru (journey).]
Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=chaffer
-Anu Garg (garg AT wordsmith.org)
"I chaffered with the king of those people, who was a wise and far-sighted
woman, and brought her to understand that it would be much to her
advantage to accept from me half the arms and ammunition I had brought
with me."
Delia Sherman; The Parwat Ruby; Fantasy & Science Fiction (Cornwall,
Connecticut); June 1999. [It was reprinted in that year's YEAR'S BEST FANTASY & HORROR, as I recall - ek]