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September 01, 2005, 20:21
shufitz
"Prime"
In the newspaper I saw the word 'prime' used in a way unfamiliar to me. Comments?
quote:
Decaying cities tthrough out history – Rome in the 5th century, Venice in the 18th – both suffered from a decayed sense of civic purpose and prime.

September 02, 2005, 02:26
BobHale
First thought? It's a typo for pride.


"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
September 02, 2005, 21:02
Kalleh
Well, it surely could be "pride." The adjectival form of "prime" would work, but I don't see that the noun form works.