Bruce writes:
> By the way, I think bespoke is a legitimate (if archaic) English word
>  meaning something like reserved or previously spoken for.

Wirt wrote:
>on the other side of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, "bespoke" has come to mean
>"customized" for some odd reason.

The latter usage is very much in vogue in Public Education in the US.

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