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|    Re: Interesting children    |
|    29 Aug 25 19:53:21    |
      XPost: alt.usage.english, alt.english.usage       From: mb@nospam.net              On 28/08/2025 20:05, Sam Plusnet wrote:       > as it was used in a newspaper article published in 1825, so I doubt if       > any of the recent work on the OED would apply.                            The OED always gives examples of the usage of words with dates, often       going back hundreds of years.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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