From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,5792b10b2356770c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.freenet.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "(see below)" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada 2005 Books (again probably!) Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:31:22 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1vd014d7cf422e2atchlnhg1h3acued2it@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net Uw3NIK+5lTN6Jd4Zwn8mXQ9XSyjfDcTCoHffN2HEkZXIExmBYi Cancel-Lock: sha1:6Q/90ArkrqZArRBoor+tJwtdGKs= User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.1.0.080305 Thread-Topic: Ada 2005 Books (again probably!) Thread-Index: AcimD3xJJpHQg+4/C0u1bWZYVlGxoQ== Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21072 Date: 2008-04-24T14:31:22+01:00 List-Id: On 24/04/2008 08:34, in article 1vd014d7cf422e2atchlnhg1h3acued2it@4ax.com, "John McCabe" wrote: > "(see below)" wrote: > >> On 23/04/2008 14:25, in article fundco$dng$2@infosun2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de, >> "Peter Hermann" wrote: >> >>> John McCabe wrote: >>>> Now that Burns/Wellings book has been out for a little while, can >>> >>> >>> out ? >> >> "out" = "published" > > Is that a Scottish thing then? Thanks for the translation Bill :-) Not according to the MacOS X Dictionary: > adjective [ predic. ] > 1 not at home or at one's place of work : if he called, she'd pretend to be > out. > 2 revealed or made public : the secret was soon out. > � (of a flower) in bloom; open. > � published : the book should be out before the end of the month. > � informal in existence or in use : it works as well as any system that's out. > � not concealing one's homosexuality : I had been out since I was seventeen. > 3 no longer alight; extingished : the fire was nearly out. > 4 at an end : school was out for the summer. > � informal no longer in fashion : life in the fast lane is out. > 5 not possible or worth considering : a trip to the seaside is out. > 6 in a state of unconsciousness. > � Boxing unable to rise before the count of ten. > 7 mistaken; in error : he was slightly out in his calculations. > 8 (of the ball in tennis and similar games) outside the designated playing > area. > 9 Baseball & Cricket no longer batting or on base, having had one's turn ended > by the team in the field : the Yankees are out in the ninth | Johnson was out > at second. -- Bill Findlay chez blueyonder.co.uk