History of the verb "ankle"
Benjamin Zimmer
bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU
Sun Feb 18 05:56:51 UTC 2007
New Language Log post of potential interest to ADS-Lers:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004210.html
Includes these antedatings:
"ankle" (intrans.) = 'to walk or run', 1917 (OED/HDAS 1926)
"ankle" (trans.) = 'to depart from, quit (something)', 1950 (HDAS 1973)
Comments welcome.
--Ben Zimmer
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