galiant effort

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 08:09:59AM -0700, Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:
> On Jun 22, 2005, at 5:40 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>
> >"Galliant" was a relatively common pronunciation in 19th C.
> >ballads.  For example...
>
> Paul Frank supplies further examples.
>
> As far as I can tell, this one's not in the OED.

There's a single quotation from Hardy (_Return of the Native_)
for "most galliantest" at the entry for _most_. It has a
"[sic]" after it....

Jesse Sheidlower
OED