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- Subject: Re: concertising
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.113722.11527@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 11:37:22 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan19.222226.12650@Princeton.EDU>, roger@crux.Princeton.EDU (Roger Lustig) writes:
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- [Yawn! We'll be rid of this one day]
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- > Now, that's 30 years ago. It may very well be that the word has
- > fallen out of favor. But sightings in America and England in
- > general contexts (i.e., not the places where jargon appears)
- > for a century (OED citations, the above, and this one) gainsay
- > any accusations of "jargon," "non-word," "neologism," "sloppy,"
- > etc.
- >
- Can you provide the OED citations please, or at least give references for them?
- So far my quotation of David Mellor and your (deleted) reference to an American
- book have been our only printed examples, apart from the performer's biog which
- started this whole thing off.
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