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No cognoscente

Author:Andrew Duncan
Posted:8/27/2000; 2:35:27 PM
Topic:No cognoscente
Msg #:20365
Prev/Next:20364 / 20366

Ah, the irony...

Howard Singer: I'll grant that it has been bowdlerized into crap, (by the non-cognoscienti) but I thought you were a scholar of arcane expressions

Singular: cognoscente

Plural: cognoscenti

An Italian word, from Latin, from Greek, meaning one who knows.

Not being one to nitpick, I mention this only in the interests of precision. :o)

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