"Ancestors" / "Descendants"

[Jonathan Lighter]

1962?? Wow!  That means some people on this list are ALREADY ancestors.

JL


Jesse Sheidlower <jester at PANIX.COM> wrote:
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On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 02:05:37PM -0700, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> (Jesse serves as Keeper of the Ancestors and perhaps will
> post some more exx. I turned all of mine over to him.)

We do have about a dozen or so examples of _ancestor_
'descendant', the earliest from 1962. The one time I did
a cursory check of the databases, I didn't find anything,
but it was hard to search for.

JTS


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