XPost: uk.politics.misc, uk.d-i-y, uk.radio.amateur 
 From: abelard3@abelard.org 
  
 On Mon, 14 Oct 2019 11:16:20 +0100, Pancho 
  wrote: 
  
 >On 14/10/2019 11:03, Cursitor Doom wrote: 
 >> On Mon, 14 Oct 2019 09:34:24 +0000, Incubus wrote: 
 >> 
 >>> The only "flaw" with the referendum is that it returned the result you 
 >>> didn't want.  You wouldn't be whining about "flaws" and "lies" if the 
 >>> result had been to remain in the EU.  You'd have no time for any 
 >>> arguments in favour of a second referendum or ignoring the result then. 
 >> 
 >> Yeah, just like 1975 all over again and the BIG LIE back then: it was 
 >> just a 'common market' and certainly not a step on the road to a federal 
 >> superstate; oh no, no, heaven forefend. 
 >> 
 > 
 >Forefend - I don't think I have ever seen that word before. I see the 
 >phrase "heaven forfend" is recognised as a standard phrase, but I have 
 >never heard it, always heaven forbid. 
 > 
 >I like a new word, but it doesn't really seem to have enough to offer to 
 >justify using it. 
 > 
 >Where do you come form? 
  
 i do not equate forfend with forbid 
  
 more like protect us from 
  
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