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Re: [NABOKV-L] Fw: [NABOKV-L] Powerful Kramler: Nabokov decoded ...]
Date:
Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:09:15 -0500
From:
Gary Lipon
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Vladimir Nabokov Forum
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On Jan 17, 2010, at 1:49 PM, Nabokv-L wrote:
> ...how did VN come to find stang...
>
> >From his goalkeeping youth.
I think this pretty much puts the issue to rest.
Grateful, Hazel let go of the stang.
(As the past participle of sting,
stang is ungrammatical in "gripping the stang").