Timeline for What is “Betty Jay”?
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| Jun 1, 2017 at 20:22 | vote | accept | Mark Dominus | ||
| Dec 8, 2015 at 23:00 | comment | added | Hot Licks | I suspect that the use of "scented" rather than "smelled" to imply "discerned by the sense of smell" could be confusing. It is a legitimate use of the verb, but rare, and unfamiliar to most English speakers. | |
| Dec 8, 2015 at 22:41 | answer | added | choster | timeline score: 4 | |
| Dec 8, 2015 at 20:32 | history | edited | Mark Dominus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 8, 2015 at 20:30 | comment | added | jejorda2 | I'm starting to think that it is a corruption of some liturgy, in which Beatte J.. (meaning pray for us, J..) is misunderstood or misrepresented. I don't know which one, or what that indicates the expression is intended to mean. | |
| Dec 8, 2015 at 20:01 | comment | added | jejorda2 | Neither the word "Betty" nor "Jay" appear again in the book, so it isn't a character in the work. I don't know if it's something like "Joe Sixpack" or "Betty Crocker" or "Jack Daniel." I haven't read the book in 20 years. | |
| Dec 8, 2015 at 19:58 | comment | added | Mark Dominus | Whose name, exactly? | |
| Dec 8, 2015 at 19:50 | comment | added | cobaltduck | It's a person's name. | |
| Dec 8, 2015 at 19:26 | history | asked | Mark Dominus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |