Re: "Tack" or "tact" (was Re: NYC Slang Needed for Newspaper Column)

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From: Peter Hesketh
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 00:00

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In article <33AF16A4.618F@erols.com>, Robert Lieblich
<lieblich@erols.com> writes
>moonman3@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>> 
>> Evan Morris wrote:
>
>> > Attack of the literaloids. The bit about "anyone know any?" was a 
>> >joke.  J O K E.  Hahaha.  Remember?
>> 
>> Nice try, but this tact is usually reserved for the clueless.
>
>I learned to use "tack," meaning a particular course, literally if one 
>is sailing, metaphorically in contexts such as this.  But I have heard 
>"tact" used so often that I think it justified to take the temperature 
>of the group.  So . . .
>
>Who says "tack"?  Who says "tact"?  Comments along with answers are 
>welcomed, indeed expected.
>
>Bob Lieblich <lieblich@erols.com>

I say tack.  I have never heard anyone in England say tact in that
context.
-- 
Peter Hesketh, Age 54, Mynyddbach, Monmouthshire, England

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From: Peter Hesketh <pbh@phesk.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: "Tack" or "tact" (was Re: NYC Slang Needed for Newspaper Column)
Date: 1997/06/24
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