Posted by David Bamford on December 13, 2003 at -1:28:13 from 203.10.110.133 user David.
In Reply to: Re: BAIL or BALE? posted by Jonathan Labaree on December 12, 2003 at 22:12:31:
Bill Bryson's "Troublesome Words" says that "Bail is a prisoner's bond, the pieces that rest on the tops of cricket stumps and the act of scooping out water. Bale is a bundle, of cotton or hay. You bail out a boat, but bale out of an aircraft. A malicious person wears a baleful expression."
David.