Oldest words in English?

[Joel S. Berson]

At 2/26/2009 10:02 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>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.

Gee -- I wasn't criticizing, I was just trying to get the proper
image for a metaphor I'd love to employ.

Joel

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