>>>>>LOL
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks Alan. You knew that would be up my street :-)
>>>>>
>>>>>I think she was very patient; I would have "gifted" him right where I could leverage him.
>>>>
>>>>And for the record, the 'English Major' is a quasi-regular feature on the show. Keillor is an English major and every so often he wants to remind us that English majors are sexy and desirable. The spots are usually a hoot.
>>>
>>>Surely you mean "semi-regular" or does the sketch only have some resemblance, usually by possession of certain attributes, to being regular? :-)
>>>
>>>...
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>>I'm not sure. What would half regular mean? To me quasi-regular means that it appears without any predictable regularity, but does, in fact, appear from time to time.
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>>Would semi-regular mean once every two shows?
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>I'm using it in the other sense: as in "to some extent, partly or incompletely" - semi-civilized; semi-independent
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>These don't mean half civilised or half independent; how could one quantify that?
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>Why don't we settle for "frequent"?
>
>I'm only entering into this in the spirit of the English major, you understand. You know me - I'd never be pedantic about usage of English :-)

[Horrified expression]... The thought would never have entered my mind! ;)