Wirt Atmar wrote:
>
> Barry asks:
>
> > So if I get reimbursed, then it means that someone refilled my bag?
> >  ;-}
>
> Absolutely right. Give that man a cigar. No ;-}'s necessary. You can see that
> action right there in the word itself.
>
> I also forgot to mention that a "purser" on a ship is also just a more modern
> English way of also saying "bursar", and means exactly the same thing: a bag
> man.
>
> Wirt Atmar

Does it then follow that to be reimbursed we assume I was at some prior
time 'imbursed' (my bag was filled for the very first time)? Or, even
before that, I was 'bursed' (perhaps the aquiring of the empty bag?) :-)