Dovina20 Feb 2006

Thank you for admitting that you, an Englishman, know nothing about bowls, or lawn-bowling as we call it here, a game having roots in the Old Country where it is played by non-old people, though some of them are, as you say, weird. Of course you chose to mention only one definition of “lily-white,” the one that suits your attack on my parsable sentence. You ignored, “innocent and pure, unsullied - often used sarcastically” which is the meaning I intended.