Re: The meaning of the word "nonce" in English (British)

I'm British and it's the first time I've heard of that meaning. I always 
understood it to mean a word that is coined for single use, and then 
discarded.

 Alan Chuter
achuter@teleservicios.es
+34 91 121 03 35


On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 15:48:40 +0100, Danks, Richard <richard.danks@c- 
f.org.uk> wrote:

>
> If you perform a search of the W3C web site for the word "nonce", you'll
> find lots of results relating to XML.  However, did you know that in 
> English
> (British) the word nonce means child-molester?
>
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