tremblor -- antedating

[James Smith]

Is this an antedating of a misspelling of temblor,
does it indicate how the word was originaly spelled -
temblor being a later modification, or did the two
spellings peacefully coexist?



--- "Mullins, Bill" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL> wrote:

> tremblor: An earthquake or earth tremor.  (OED 1913)
>
> from the front cover of _Popular Mechanics_, June
> 1906 online at:
>
http://popularmechanics.com/albums/index.phtml?mode=view&album=1906&pic=1906
> 06.jpg&dispsize=400&start=0
>
> "seismograph record of the tremblor" [re: the San
> Francisco earthquake]
>


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