XPost: alt.usage.english, alt.english.usage   
   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Wed, 27 Aug 2025 16:40:02 +0100, Hibou   
    wrote:   
      
   >Le 26/08/2025 à 05:42, Steve Hayes a écrit :   
   >>   
   >> Another example of something we have discussed here before, This from   
   >> the "Carlisle Patriot", 09 Jul 1825   
   >>   
   >> On 25 Aug 2025 at 16:46, petra.mitchinson--- via list-cumbria wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> The last case, was on Monday evening, when he inveigled an   
   >>> interesting little creature under the dry arch of Eden-Bridge.   
   >>   
   >> A language question: what does "interesting" mean in this context?   
   >>   
   >> It seems to have been quite common for 19th-century newspapers to   
   >> speak of "interesting children" or "an interesting child", but I   
   >> wonder what it meant?   
   >   
   >Ha! It seems you have indeed wondered this before (22 years ago), and   
   >received lots of possible answers:   
   >   
   >'Interesting children' -   
   >   
      
      
   Yes, but none of the possible answers was very convincing.   
      
   With the passage of years, some of those who took part in the earlier   
   discussion are no longer with us, and we have some people who weren't   
   around back then, so when I came across the term again, I thought it   
   might be worth reopening the topic.   
      
      
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