Seen in thread on "fracket"

[David Barnhart]

The use of _live_ meaning in widespread or real speech and writing and of
"in the wild" meaning approximately the same thing, are interesting terms.



How far back do they appear in the contexts of linguistics?



Regards to all and Happy New Year,



David



Barnhart at highlands.com

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