(Another bogus in?) Google's metadata mish-mash

[Mark Mandel]

Yes, it is a double minus. Perhaps I should have put a non-breaking space
between them.

The list seems to have trouble with UTF-8; my long-s (=U+017f) + i, which I
entered as separate characters, show up in your quote as
>
> ナ

U+30ca, katakana /na/

And "near Gray's-Inn" in your quote from the Harvard catalog is

> near Gray痴-Inn

where

> 痴

is U+75f4  chi1 'silly, idiotic; crazy about; insane, mad' acc. to the
dictionary I have on hand here.

'Nuff wrote!

m a m

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

> At 12/21/2010 08:20 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:
> >...
> >  4. The real thing!
> >     *A compleat history of the present state of war in Africa, between
> the
> >Spaniards and Algerines: ...*
> >     J Morgan.
> >     1632
> >
> >"States arrived at that Criナs cannot long subsist". A hit, a palpable hit,
> >even with an s-longa + i ligature.
> >...
> >I give Google Ngrams a D-- here, saved from an F only by that single
> genuine
> >hit.
>
> That is a double minus, is it not? Perhaps it
> should be changed to an F+.  I suspect there is a
> misprint of the date on the title page, and it
> should be 1732.  (1632 would be an antedating of
> OED sense 3, although only of 1659.)
>
> Harvard's catalog says:
> Author :  Morgan, J., fl. 1739
> Title :         A compleat history of the present
> state of war in Africa, between the Spaniards and Algerines [etc. etc.]
> Published :  London : printed for W. Mears, at
> the Lamb in the Old Bailey; and J. Stone,
> Bedford-Row, near Gray痴-Inn, M.DC.XXXII. M.DC.XXXII [i.e. 1732]
>
> (The repeated Roman year appears also in ESTC,
> which similarly says {i.e. 1732].)  Harvard lists
> several other titles it attributes to this
> "Morgan, J., fl. 1739" from 1728 through (as a translator) 1744.
>
> Joel
>
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