[X4U] Jonesing

[Linda]

On 2/16/08 12:49 AM, Stroller wrote:

> I was unaware of the use of the word "esteemed" as a synonym for
> "amateur".

It isn't, of course.

> I was looking to disprove your keeping-up-with-the-Jones etymology.

Well, thanks! It's nice to know that you weren't interested in all the
possible answers so much as you simply wanted to prove an individual wrong.

It wasn't MY etymology, however. Believe what you like; that's the beauty of
language. 

~Linda (who isn't unfamiliar with Kerouac, nor with Ginsberg and Burroughs)