>>> A.B.Pearce@RL.AC.UK 04/25/03 03:28AM >>>
>>Intercourse would probably be a more concise word in this instance.

>A colleague of mine ... used to have dinner with the trainees
> in the middle of the course ...
> He maintained that this was an "intercourse dinner" :)

Ye, but ... it should have then been billed intra-course. "inter"
denotes between two, here, between two courses, events, whereas "intra"
being within those courses. Bloody bloke plain to me.  ;-)

Peter

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