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This kind of analysis should (also?) include checking what words were in common usage prior to the writer vs. what words originated with said writer...
by jleyank 15y ago
This kind of analysis should (also?) include checking what words were in common usage prior to the writer vs. what words originated with said writer...
- zwischenzug 15y agoI'm not sure how you'd determine that; I guess you'd need a definitive and complete transcription of correctly-dated works. The OED is not a few man-hours work, and even they hesitate to be definitive :)