Oldest words in English?

[Joel S. Berson]

At 2/27/2009 09:59 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>The void of fancy?

:-)  Very appropriate, for those for whom that's the pronunciation of "word".

Joel


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>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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