jointness, getting joint

[Grant Barrett]

In 2004 I did an entry for a related word, "jointery," which seemed
to be primarily British:

http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/dictionary/jointery/

Grant Barrett
gbarrett at worldnewyork.org

On Mar 15, 2006, at 02:08, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:

> "Jointness" is surprisingly not in OED or the other dictionaries I
> checked. Long before it became a military buzzword, "jointness" was
> used by scholars, especially economists, in a variety of contexts. I
> found it back to 1871 on Making of America:

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