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Subject: Re: Canadian theater Posted on: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 17:44:22 EDT

Henry wrote:

> > It doesn't surprise me that someone who would
> > describe it as "provincial" would try to support such a camp comment with such
> > nonsense.
>
> Camp? Not at all. Check that big book with all the words in it: 'of or
> pertaining to the provinces'. Next you'll be claiming that a town of
> 30,000 people is a metropolis?

The word is an anachronism, a trite old comment, a remnant from the the days when it
was used by the big city snobs to refer to the things going on in locations too far
by coach to keep up with the latest fads. It was a word used by pretentious snots
100 years ago, and apparently by some in the present.

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