Re: The "prison IS university" metaphor - a review

LFS <laura@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:

> Molly Mockford wrote:
>> At 05:04:23 on Sat, 15 Mar 2008, FCS <sipston_777@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>> in
>> <2d398840-45d0-47f8-9e05-385f3e2fd9b0@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>:
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>>> tended to leave prison with a range of criminal skills enabling
>>> them to hotwire vehicles, forge keys and pry 10 types of window jamb
>> Excuse me, but although you may get away with that in aue, in ucle
>> we speak UK English, and the word is "prise".  "Pry" means to
>> intrude, to poke one's nose into somebody else's affairs; "prise"
>> means to jemmy.
>
> According to OED, pry is used thus in one part of the UK:
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>      1. trans. orig. U.S. and Eng. regional (E. Anglian). To raise,
>      move, or force up, out, open, etc., with a lever; = PRISE
>      v. 1a. Also in extended use.

I read that as saying that it was *originally* used in the US and East
Anglia, with the implication that it is no longer so restricted.

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