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    From Athel Cornish-Bowden@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 12 11:34:47 2024
    Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln (twins!) were born on 12th February
    1809. Neither known for contributions to linguistics, but famous anyway.

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    Athel cb

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  • From Aidan Kehoe@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 12 19:10:09 2024
    Ar an dara lá déag de mí Feabhra, scríobh Athel Cornish-Bowden:

    Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln (twins!) were born on 12th February
    1809. Neither known for contributions to linguistics, but famous anyway.

    ‘Four score and seven years ago, our forefathers brought four the plea, “Please, sir, I want some more.”’

    My digital copy of the OED2 is in a Windows XP virtual machine image that would need several hours for me to bring up, but I’m certain Dickens has plenty of early datings of English words, if someone has the access to confirm. Lincoln too, for that matter.

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    ‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /
    How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’
    (C. Moore)

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  • From Aidan Kehoe@21:1/5 to All on Tue Feb 13 06:24:06 2024
    Ar an dara lá déag de mí Feabhra, scríobh Aidan Kehoe:

    Ar an dara lá déag de mí Feabhra, scríobh Athel Cornish-Bowden:

    Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln (twins!) were born on 12th February 1809. Neither known for contributions to linguistics, but famous anyway.

    ‘Four score and seven years ago, our forefathers brought four the plea, “Please, sir, I want some more.”’

    My digital copy of the OED2 is in a Windows XP virtual machine image that would
    need several hours for me to bring up, but I’m certain Dickens has plenty of
    early datings of English words, if someone has the access to confirm. Lincoln
    too, for that matter.

    Oops, wrong Charles D!

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    ‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /
    How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’
    (C. Moore)

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  • From Ruud Harmsen@21:1/5 to All on Tue Feb 13 17:28:35 2024
    Mon, 12 Feb 2024 19:10:09 +0000: Aidan Kehoe <[email protected]>
    scribeva:


    Ar an dara lá déag de mí Feabhra, scríobh Athel Cornish-Bowden:

    Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln (twins!) were born on 12th February 1809. Neither known for contributions to linguistics, but famous anyway.

    ‘Four score and seven years ago, our forefathers brought four the plea, >“Please, sir, I want some more.”’

    My digital copy of the OED2 is in a Windows XP virtual machine image that would
    need several hours for me to bring up, but I’m certain Dickens has plenty of >early datings of English words, if someone has the access to confirm. Lincoln >too, for that matter.

    https://oed.hertford.ox.ac.uk/oed-editions/oed2/
    https://www.oed.com/
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    Ruud Harmsen, https://rudhar.com

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