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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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- Try Yiddish., Brett Glass, 8/27/2000; 3:29:02 PM
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