On Feb 24, 2004, at 10:25 PM, Mark A Mandel wrote: > On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Kenneth Gorelick wrote: > > #This is ALL to subtle for me. I thought athiest meant the one with the > #most athy. > > No, it describes the one who IS the most athy. > > Who may or may not be a resident of Athol, Mass. > > -- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and > Philological Busybody > a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel > > Would it be too twisted to call a follower of the late dictator of Iraq a Ba'athiest?