beknown

[George Thompson]

Don't forget that the "B" vols. of the OED were compiled when Jimmy Murray was but a beardless youth and 1876 was just the other day.

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

----- Original Message -----
From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
Date: Wednesday, August 5, 2009 9:46 am
Subject: Re: beknown
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU

> Yeah, but "beknown" is called "archaic," and the 1876 "beholden" is
> from a
> book called _Modern English_.
>
> My mother and grandmother used to say "beholden" all the time.
>
> (That's hyperbole for you. I meant that they said it like it was nothing
> special.)
>
> JL
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > Poster:       "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
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> > At 8/5/2009 08:45 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> > >The final OED ex. is from 1865.
> > >
> > >But how did they miss this?:
> > >
> > >2006
> > >
> > http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=94993&atid=24648&category=UserReviews
> > >: i believe john ireland made his name beknown in this film.
> >
> > They must have been sleeping though Katharine Hepburn movies.  After
> > all, she said "beholden" in "Philadelphia Story" in 1938 and again in
> > 1940, and the final OED ex. for that is from 1873.
> >
> > Joel
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