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Tim Lodge
January 19th, 2007, 02:30 PM
Dodi

--- In coryphaeus (AT) yahoogroups (DOT) com, Dodi Schultz <schultz@...> wrote:
>
> Thanks, Dan. Okay, guys (including Wayne and Johnny), I just learned
> something. Also a new respect for Toni's knowledge of med(a)(i)eval-
-or
> perhaps current Irish--orthography. ;-)
>

FWIW, the online OED gives the spelling forms as mediaeval, medieval.
I too learnt something in the secondary meanings by looking it up:

1b. medieval guipure = MACRAMÉ n. Obs. rare

3b. [U.S.] to get medieval: to use violence or extreme measures
on, to become aggressive. [The first citation for that one is "1994
Q. TARANTINO & R. AVARY Pulp Fiction"!]

-- Tim L