Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/02/01

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Subject: Re: What the hell's a FIE?
From: Michael Leitheiser <flyh2o@mtsi.com>
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 1997 23:32:57 -0800
 
At 10:24 PM 2/1/97 -0700, you wrote:
>Didn't R. Beamon use that word once or twice here?
>
>Ben W. Holmes
>
>Boulder, CO
>USA
>
>bholmes@frii.com
>

fie, an interjection, from the latin "fi", I believe, an expression of
distaste, as for a bad smell.....perhaps one of the scholars here could
pitch in.
Mike Leitheiser

"When the trout are lost, smash the state."
                                   Tom McGuane