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   From: me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net   
      
   "Magus"  wrote in message   
   news:wZzKi.104496$jH3.75266@bignews6.bellsouth.net...   
   > Scout wrote:   
   >> "Leif"  wrote in message   
   >    
   >> You ability to misconstrue and misrepresent something has already been   
   >> established. If the meaning you claim is valid then surely it would be in   
   >> an authoritative source such as Webster's, American Heritage, or even   
   >> Oxford. Heck, they even include archaic and obsolete meanings. So if the   
   >> meaning you suggest is valid you should be able to find it somewhere. I   
   >> may even take a run down to the library later and see if I can supply you   
   >> with a few more listings for the meaning of people from other and older   
   >> sources.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >   
   > Johnson and Walker's Dictionary of the English Language   
   > Second Edition, Revised and Corrected   
   > MDCCCXXVIII (1828)   
   >   
   > PEOPLE, A nation; those who compose a community; the vulgar; the   
   > commonalty; not the princes or nobles; persons of a particular class; men   
   > or persons in general.   
   >   
   > To PEOPLE, To stock with inhabitants.   
      
   Nice one and very close to the time period in question. Yet, somehow I   
   suspect that Leif will once again assert that the Founding Fathers were   
   illiterate boobs who didn't know the meanings of the words they used. Sort   
   of like Leif himself is.   
      
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