tremblor -- antedating

[Wilson Gray]

The OED gives Spanish "temblor" (1876) as the original form and gives
the origin of "tremblor" as a cross of "temblor" with English
"trembler."

I had to look it up, if no one else was going to. I was completely
unaware of the existence of "tremblor" until now.

-Wilson Gray

On Nov 10, 2004, at 9:07 AM, James Smith wrote:

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