>Enjoin - to direct by order is a transitive verb
>Enjoin - to prohibit by order is a transitive verb
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>So 'enjoin' has opposite meanings even while retaining the same construction.
I used to know an Irish guy from Londonderry, or Derry as the Catholics call it. He told me that the local accent uses "'join" to mean admonish in a similar way (I guess they just like knocking the start off words :-)
He told me that during "The Troubles" in the early 70s, a British reporter was gob-smacked when he asked a local "mother": "And what would you do if you saw your children in the street, throwing stones at the soldiers?"
She replied, "Sure I'd go out an 'join them!"
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
