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Dodi Schultz
September 11th, 2005, 08:08 AM
>> The oed shows the first usage circa 1000 ad. In other words, it
>> exists in old english.
>>
>> -er

Who wrote the above (the routing text shows no actual name, either, and at
least until now, there's been no Dixonary player with those initials), and
what on earth is "it"?

Please sign messages when your real name appears nowhere else, and please
quote sufficiently that folks will know what the heck you're talking about.
We have no reference and no clue otherwise.

Thanks.

--Dodi


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Dave Cunningham
September 11th, 2005, 08:56 AM
I suspect Earle Robinson has left his mark <g>. He ran the European Forums before AOL emasculated CompuServe. (And he won't tell TPTB that we are not fully reverent, I trust <g>)

Dave
Tony Abell
September 11th, 2005, 11:49 AM
On 2005-09-11 at 09:08 Dodi Schultz wrote:

ER>> The oed shows the first usage circa 1000 ad. In other words, it
ER>> exists in old english.

DS> Who wrote the above (the routing text shows no actual name,
DS> either, and at least until now, there's been no Dixonary player
DS> with those initials), and what on earth is "it"?

If you had been using a threaded email client, you would have been
able to see that the message in question was a direct reply to
Guerri's message that began, "Well, my dictionary is the New Oxford
American Dictionary. I assume you are talking about clary." So "it"
would be clary, even though John Barrs had already pointed out that
clary wasn't the word he meant. There sometimes seems to be greatly
delayed synchronization between Coryphaeus and tapcis.com.

--
Tony Abell



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