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<div>Could it possibly be related to "Mijnheer(n)"?</div>
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<div>This is just what sprang to mind; an uneducated guess, as it
were.</div>
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<div>Erin McKean</div>
<div>editor@verbatimmag.com</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite> I have come across
"Meerns" as a term of address in a 1913 sports article but
am unable to determine its exact meaning. It does not seem to
be listed in the dictionaries.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite> The word appears in
the newspaper _San Francisco Bulletin_, March 11, 1913, p. 18, cols.
5-6, over the photograph of former baseball player Bill Lange. The
relevant sentence is:</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Geneva" size="+2"
color="#000000">'As Pop Anson would pause to remark, "I knew him
when he was the equal of a bum baseball player they call Tyrus
Raymond Cobb." Yes, Meerns, that was some years
ago.'</font></blockquote>
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color="#000000"><br></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Geneva" size="+2"
color="#000000"> Would anyone have any
suggestions?</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Geneva" size="+2"
color="#000000">---Gerald Cohen</font></blockquote>
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