Quiros "Voyages" (1595-1606); Banana Sculptor

[Fred Shapiro]

On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

>    OED missed a another goldmine.

Why is a Spanish book a goldmine for the OED?  Or do you mean that the OED
has many of these terms with dates post-1904?

Fred Shapiro


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