XPost: alt.usage.english   
   From: HenHanna@devnull.tb   
      
   On 7/8/2024 9:52 PM, Hibou wrote:   
   > but it is kent, apparently   
      
                 kent == known?   
      
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kent#Verb   
      
                 NOT   [it is from Kent],  used in Kent   
      
      
      
     "hire"  -- used to be an old-fashioned term for   
                      a kind of  Taxi cab  in Japan.   
      
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