Re: library for rendering HTML

Chris Uppal wrote:

Andrew Thompson wrote:

Oh!  By 'knobbles', I mean 'limits' or 'blocks'
things that could formerly be done easily.

But surely, as a term from ..horse racing(?) I thought
that would be a fairly well understood word across the
western world*?


It's usually spelled without the 'k'. 

D'Oh!  That explains why none of the web definitions
of 'knobbled' did *not* refer to horses or racing so
much as either ..
a) A small knob
b) A texture (consisting of lots of small knobs)

And yes, it does seem to be from the horse-racing world; at least the OED
states that it is "of obscure origin" but its earliest reference for the word,
from 1847, has that context.


It was after examining my father's 'concise' English dictionary
that spanned two volumes, contained approximately 350,000 words,
and was solid enough to form a weapon suitable for pig hunting,
that I decided that English has far too many words.   ;-)
.

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