HOW ARE YOU KEEPING?
Sir,-In a recent issue a correspondent, "Seventy," expressed dissatisfaction at the query "How are you keeping?" Several people have complained to me about the same expression, and I have endeavoured to sooth them by pointing out that it was merely an oldfashioned use of the word "keep" in accord with its early meaning of to live or dwell. Students at Cambridge still ask each other "Where do you keep?," meaning "Where do you live," and old border castles, on the further side of the Tweed, at least, are still called "keeps," or were when I was young.
DUNDAS
(Auckland). |
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 252, 21 April 1944, Page 3
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103HOW ARE YOU KEEPING? New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 252, 21 April 1944, Page 3
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