optics (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Robin Hamilton]

Keats on optics:  "On First Eyeballing Chapman's Homer".

RH.

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> Of "optics," Bill Mullins observed:
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>> This usage goes back to 5/2008, if not earlier:
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> http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/05/an_optics_problem_for_m
> ccain.php
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> I first noticed this usage about 6 months ago.  It's one of my favorite
> discoveries of the year.
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> And then I was interested (and grateful) to see that listmember Bruce K.
> Dykes had posted about it in May, 1999.
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> http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9905C&L=ADS-L&P=R153
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> -- Bonnie

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