--- Sam the man <ngalyod@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > [Wondering where the phrase "to a 't'" came from
> in
> > the English language.]
> 
> Well Jerome K. Jerome wondered the same thing well
> over a hundred years ago in Three Men In A Boat so
> it's evidently not a new concern. :)
> 
> Sam the man

Hehe, if I have to broadcast my ignorance, at least
it's about one of the Great Mysteries of the Universe!

BTW, thanks for enlightening us, Anne!  Never pictured
you as a quiet, mousy librarian, though ^_^.

Brian W.