Comments on: Financial Times 14,233 by Mudd http://www.fifteensquared.net/2013/02/21/financial-times-14233-by-mudd/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sat, 25 May 2013 04:22:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Pete Maclean http://www.fifteensquared.net/2013/02/21/financial-times-14233-by-mudd/#comment-221167 Pete Maclean Fri, 22 Feb 2013 13:40:27 +0000 http://www.fifteensquared.net/?p=55713#comment-221167 Hi Gaufrid. And that phrase happened to come up in another Mudd recently (26ac in http://www.fifteensquared.net/2013/02/07/financial-times-14221-by-mudd/). Maybe that led Mudd to think that ‘trop’ by itself is more English than is appropriate.

]]> By: Gaufrid http://www.fifteensquared.net/2013/02/21/financial-times-14233-by-mudd/#comment-221161 Gaufrid Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:43:20 +0000 http://www.fifteensquared.net/?p=55713#comment-221161 So far as I am aware, the only time that TROP is used in English is in the phrase ‘de trop’ meaning unwanted or excessive (literally, of too much).

]]> By: Pete Maclean http://www.fifteensquared.net/2013/02/21/financial-times-14233-by-mudd/#comment-221159 Pete Maclean Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:18:30 +0000 http://www.fifteensquared.net/?p=55713#comment-221159 John, You raise an interesting question. I don’t have all my usual dictionaries at hand but those that I can check (Collins Cobuild and The Shorter Oxford) do not list it. Checking online dictionaries I find that a few list it but as a French word. And I don’t mean as a French word that has been adopted into English but simply as a French word! So the answer may well be no.

]]> By: John Newman http://www.fifteensquared.net/2013/02/21/financial-times-14233-by-mudd/#comment-221155 John Newman Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:00:14 +0000 http://www.fifteensquared.net/?p=55713#comment-221155 Thanks Pete. I very bravely had a go at this while on holiday without access to a dictionary or the internet and feel I performed creditably but couldn’t get a few.

Is TROP an English word?

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