galiant effort

Arnold M. Zwicky zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Wed Jun 22 15:09:59 UTC 2005


On Jun 22, 2005, at 5:40 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> "Galliant" was a relatively common pronunciation in 19th C.
> ballads.  For example...

Paul Frank supplies further examples.

As far as I can tell, this one's not in the OED.

arnold



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