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   Hi, Anton!  Recently you wrote in a message to Anton Shepelev:   
      
   AS>  In Louse H. Briesemester's "Island Winds",    
      
      
             Uh... "louse" is the singular of "lice".  If you mean "Louise", that   
   is AFAIK a feminine variant of "Louis" often used in English.  Either way I am   
   unable to find any reference to this author from where I sit.  I see there's a   
   shop on Prince Edward Island (+/- 4000 miles away) called "Island Winds" and I   
   see there's a school in Texas named after A.J. Briesemeister.   
      
             Not to worry.  I had to keep checking my own spelling there....  :-)   
      
      
      
   AS>  I came upon another interesting nominal use of `part':   
      
   AS>       And barometers are considered a part of the standard   
   AS>       equipment of every home.   
      
   AS>  I called it interesting because I should have omitted the   
   AS>  indefinite article.   
      
      
             Should you?  I see that in a reply to Alexander you mentioned a head   
   Which had somehow been disconnected from various other parts of the same body.   
   But thanks to Miss Langwidge I'm reminded of the words of a 19th century poem:   
      
        
                  I am a part of all that I have met.   
                                       -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson   
                       
      
             Nowadays folks tend to use as few words as possible, and I would   
   have omitted the indefinite article there too.  OTOH I notice that the extra   
   letters others don't want to waste often reappear in expressions such as "at   
   this point time" or "off of", which both I & US grammarians consider to be   
   redundant.  :-Q   
      
      
      
      
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