Sunday, January 31, 2010

Bayeux's Fault -- And DeFault

Kramer is right, Anglophones are importing from France since at least 1066. So what gives. Strictly, the antonym of 'default' is 'fault'. Odd that. But ask your neighbour if she can think, fastly, of the antonym of "by default". Sure she'll have "a train to catch", as she'll say.

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