There’s an Anglo Saxon word that the Sex Pistols ended up in court for back in 1977 that’d we’d use with regard to this blog post by Martindale Hubbell blogger. Mike Mintz.
Commenting on the recent survey ( reported yesterday on HOB) undertaken by the US Law Librarians Blog. Yes at the moment law librarians KM’s are more positive about Lexis than they are West.. but to say that they are loved is like saying Darth Vader didn’t go to the dark side.
Mintz writes…. excuse our highlighting but it has to be done.. but his choice of certain words press dangerous buttons for our patience
Law Librarians Love LexisNexis Over the Competition
The Law Librarians Blog (?LLB?) posted the first of their findings from the recent Rate Your Legal Resources Vendor Survey.? In this ?admittedly unscientific survey? the LLB found that LexisNexis excelled over West in both customer service and in the trustworthiness of literature about their products.? Other areas were surveyed as well, which the LLB will release over the next few weeks.
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but the results of this survey attest to one of the greatest things about LexisNexis: at the end of the day we want to do right by you ? whether you are a customer, employee, or competitor.
At which point we will use that word bollocks…
Here’s the full transcript of the aforementioned court case …
He said it was used in records from the year 1000 and in Anglo Saxon times it meant a small ball. The terms was also used to describe an orchid. He said that in the 1961 publication of Eric Partridge’s Dictionary of Slang, he had not taken into account the use of the word bollocks in the Middle Ages. He said it appears in Medievel bibles and veterinary books. In the bible it was used to describe small things of an appropriate shape. He said that the word also appears in place names without stirring any sensual desires in the local communities. Mortimer said that this would be similar to a city being called Maidenhead which didn’t seem to cause the locals in the vicinity any problems. Mr Kingsley said that Partridge in his books wrote that bollocks remained in colloquial use down through the centuries and was also used to denote a clergyman in the last century. ”The word has been used as a nickname for clergymen. Clergymen are known to talk a good deal of rubbish and so the word later developed the meaning of nonsense,” he said. ”They became known for talking a great deal of bollocks, just as old balls or baloney also come to mean testicles, so it has twin uses in the dictionary”. (…)
