Une or un (Was: Paris Visit)

[Paul Mackin]

On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Jeremy Osner wrote:

> I asked the list a question about what a perm' was, way back in December of '97;
> Sherwood Harrison wrote back that he
> 
> > read somewhere (Weisenburger?)
> > that it was French slang for "a stay"--"un permanence."

I hadn't gotten Jeremy's post when I wrote mine. "Un perm'"
might very well be slang for 'a stay' as P uses it, but it's
derivation from 'permanence' would seem to imply the other extreme
length-of-time-wise to 'permissionaire,' wouldn't it--plus the fact it's
feminine. 

Or maybe Slothrop was supposed to DIE there. Un or une perm' en
permanence?

This is getting curiouser and curiouser.


	P.