[clue-talk] NX presentation (was: meeting topics)

[Jed S. Baer]

On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 19:57:12 -0700 (MST)
David L. Willson wrote:

> with baited breath, whatever that means?

Actually, it's "'bated breath", the apostrophe taking the place of the
letter "a", thus "abated breath", though the term has been in use so
long, that the apostrophe gets dropped, and it gets misspelled.

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-bai1.htm

jed