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Re: First Thing's (?) First... logic don't enter into it

Subject: Re: First Thing's (?) First... logic don't enter into it
From: dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 16:35:21 -0700


Wright, Lynne wrote:

...its [sic] a colloquial expression, like "First Come, First Served," that
really makes no grammatical sense.

What?! _Of_course_ "first come, first served" makes sense.

The person who comes (arrives) first is the "first come" (first arrived), like "least aged." Used in this way, "come" is an adjective meaning "having arrived."

He who is the first to have come is the first to be served.

--David

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