Oldest words in English?

[Jonathan Lighter]

The void of fancy?

JL

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> 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.
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> Just what does one leap into when one is prone o leaps of faith?
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> Joel
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