Q: soixante neuf

[Laurence Horn]

At 1:32 PM -0200 10/30/09, David A. Daniel wrote:
>That Randiana link makes interesting use of XXC to mean 80. Anybody know if
>that was standard at one time or is still obscurely in use, or is perhaps
>just wrong?
>DAD

P.S.  Forgot to mention another striking feature of this ms., viz.
the name of the master seducer/narrator, which leads to such
evocative passages as:

'Oh! Mr. Clinton, you will ruin me, I'm sure you will. Pray stop
where you are, and do not go any further.'...

'Oh! Mr. Clinton, I shall faint. Do let me go. I never felt anything
like this in my life.'

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>On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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>>>  I'm still waiting for someone -- anyone! -- to address my questions,
>>>  which are about dating (before 1888).
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>How about 1884 for the term "Sixty-Nine" in the book _Randiana_.  It is
>online here:
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>http://www.folklore.ms/html/books_and_MSS/1880s/1884_randiana/index.htm
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>According to Ashbee, Vol. 3, p. 485, the first edition of _Randiana_ was
>published in 1884 by William Lazenby and Edward Avery.
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>It also appears in Vols. 8, 10, and 11 of _My Secret Life_ (1888-1894):
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>http://www.folklore.ms/html/books_and_MSS/1880s/1888_my_secret_life/vol_08/i
>ndex.htm
>http://www.folklore.ms/html/books_and_MSS/1880s/1888_my_secret_life/vol_10/i
>ndex.htm
>http://www.folklore.ms/html/books_and_MSS/1880s/1888_my_secret_life/vol_11/i
>ndex.htm
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