Go (Japanese game) & "Hear/Speak/See No Evil" Monkeys (1884)

[Fred Shapiro]

On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

>    If you really want to antedate the OED, just find out what it already read
> and read those same books.

Didn't Jurgen Schafer, in his book Documentation and the OED, estimate
that three-quarters of the first uses in the OED could be antedated from
the same books cited in the OED?  He was talking about the Early Modern
English period, so his figures may pertain to that period.

Fred Shapiro


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