Antedating of "Colloquial"

[Fred Shapiro]

colloquial (OED 1751)

1723 Henry Rowlands _Mona Antiqua Restaurata_ 235 (Eighteenth Century
Collections Online)  Great Numbers of Youths resorted to be train'd up in
the _Druidish_ Learning, continuing their Colloquial Studies sometimes
Twenty Years together in that Place.

Fred Shapiro


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