[plug] sorry group

[Bret Busby]

Trevor Phillips wrote:
> 
> Bernard Blackham wrote:
> >
> > > I got a spell checker running so grant cant bitch.
> >
> > Don't mean to be grumpy but you might wish to have a grammar checker as
> > well. ;)
> 
> I'm curious as to what spell checker thinks "cant" is a correct word. *grin*
> 

cant (1 in superscript) - 1 insincere pious or moral talk. 2 ephemeral
or fashionable catchwords. 3 language peculiar to a class , profession,
sect, etc.; jargon (as in TLA's)

cant (2 in superscript) - 1a a slanting surface, e.g. of a bank. b a
bevel of a crystal etc. 2 an oblique push or movement that upsets or
partly upsets something. 3 a tilted or sloping position.  < and, so-n,
for more meanings>