Re: Fun Pairs -- mute point vs. moot point

Subject: Re: Fun Pairs -- mute point vs. moot point
From: Buck & Tilly Buchanan <writer -at- WF -dot- NET>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 18:37:51 -0500

> moot point = the point is debatable
> mute point = the point is no longer open to question

Nor can it speak.
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Buck Buchanan
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