Query: "blue laws"

[Joel S. Berson]

Do John and Fred mean there were no such laws, or that nobody has
found them on blue paper?

I suspect that the OED2 definition, "blue laws, severe Puritanic laws
said to have been enacted last century at New Haven, Connecticut,
U.S.", should at least have its "said to have been" deleted.

Joel

At 3/21/2006 10:09 AM, you wrote:
>However, nobody has ever found such a set of laws.
>
>FWIW, I have studied this question and my conclusions accord with John's.
>
>Fred Shapiro

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