dating phrases

Robert S. Wachal robert-wachal at UIOWA.EDU
Sat Feb 3 20:26:18 UTC 2001


At a performance of the musical, RAGTINE, which I attended last night, I
heard two potential anachronisms--"people of color" and "even as we speak."
The events of the musical are during the period of World War One.

Are these two phrases anachronisms?

Bob Wachal



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