Re: Ba-Bush-Ka

[ryan@ces.cwru.edu (Ryan McGuire)]

In article <91Nov14.091304pst.437199@wiretap.Spies.COM> MTARR@EAGLE.WESLEYAN.EDU writes:
>Steve notes:
>>...
>> line, what bugs me is why didn't she use the correct word, "Froze"?  It does
>> nothing to the timing of the song; also, I doubt if she picked "freezed" ...
>
>Actually, the funniest thing I've ever heard her say was last year (goddess,
>that was almost exactly a year ago!) at the KonvenTion, when she was talking
>about the song "The Sensual World" and the hell she went through with the Joyce
>estate while writing it.  She said something like "Here I was with this music
>and this passage, and the words just *fitted*, you know, they fitted so
>well..."
>
>Fitted.  Yeah.  Is that like in the King James Bible where everything gets
>builded and begetted and all that?  ;)

    Actually my American Heritage Dictionary lists both fitted and fit as
the past tense of fit.  Note that "fitted" even came first.


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