Insane

[Christine Karatnytsky]

Quoth davemarc re the use of various words to mean addled, mad,
irrational: 

> I've been mulling over P's use of the word "insane"
>throughout M&D.  It strikes me that he uses it in a slightly offbeat 
>way, though I suppose it might not've been so unusual back in 1763 or
so.  

I am not the one to say, but it seems to me that "insane" is particularly
British.

Chris