XPost: uk.politics.misc, uk.d-i-y, uk.radio.amateur 
 From: tnp@invalid.invalid 
  
 On 14/10/2019 11:35, Dan S. MacAbre wrote: 
 > 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. 
 >> 
 > 
 > It's a less-used spelling of 'forfend', which ISTM is a word encountered 
 > only in old books now (although Rees-Mogg might rather like it) :-)€€ I 
 > take it to mean 'defend'. 
 > 
 defend before it happens - i.e. avert 
  
 >> 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? 
 > 
 (a) I am not a form 
 (b) None of your business 
  
  
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 €€€The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that 
 the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt." 
  
     - Bertrand Russell 
  
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