Re: RE: be'

["William H. Martin" <whm2m@server1.mail.virginia.edu>]

On Fri, 12 Feb 1999 15:00:39 -0800 (PST) "Andeen, Eric" 
<Eric.Andeen@Sequencia.com> wrote:

...
> A <be''a'> would be someone who is "more" than a woman. What does that mean?
> Is she physically larger? Older? Somehow more "womanly"? No obvious meaning
> comes to mind. When I hear <be''a'> without any context, I would think of a
> woman who is somehow "great" - Madame Curie, Queen Elizabeth I, or Joan of
> Arc, perhaps.

Or perhaps yaSmIn?
 
> pagh
> Beginners' Grammarian

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