Re: More signs of the times

In article <22l4r3hqbfoo0sin7e3k9b2m486gfqkms6@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
mike weber  <fair****tfan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:46:36 -0000, dicconf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Richard Eney)
>wrote:
>
>>For a slight ****ft of topic but still within the subject line:
>>When and where did "lightly" begin to be used to mean "mildly" 
>>or "slightly"?  I've only previously seen it used that way by 
>>a woman from Peru who is not a native speaker of English.
>
>As in "We use only the finest Amazon tree frogs, hand picked, lightly
>killed..."?  (Of course, i could be misrecalling that.)

More or less, yes, though it would be more along the lines of
"He was lightly upset about the insult but got over it."

I've only ever seen it used by her on a different Usenet newsgroup,
and just now here.

=Tamar