Oldest words in English?

[Arnold Zwicky]

On Feb 26, 2009, at 9:50 AM, Dennis Baron wrote:
>
> If you go to the website at reading where Pagel had his time-travel
> list, this is the message you get, though the meaning of "soon" is not
> clarified:
>
> "Words to use through time.
>
> This web page has been removed temporally.
> Please check back soon ."

on "temporally" for "temporarily", see:

BZ, 7/16/08: Temporally speaking:
  http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=368

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