Oldest words in English?

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:52 PM -0500 2/26/09, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>At 2/26/2009 02:28 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>>I use it all the time in my Words class,
>>but I have to say it (he) is prone to leaps of faith into which the
>>OED, for one, is not inclined to follow.
>
>Just what does one leap into when one is prone o leaps of faith?
>
>Joel
>
I actually did hesitate about the preposition to use there, believe
it or not, and then gave up and figured what the hell.

LH

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