9 Aug
2003
9 Aug
'03
4:46 a.m.
On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Larry Troxler wrote:
Actually I didn't know that - I for one just think of "lynching" as synomynous with "beating". Then again, I could just be an ignorant, racist, American ;-)
my dictionary says "to put to death (as by hanging) by mob action without legal sanction"
which is also always how I've seen the word used
and that's a bit more than just beating up.
Mathieu Bouchard http://artengine.ca/matju