"officially" misnumbered centuries

[Jonathan Lighter]

Are you testing my prescriptivist faith?

I'll sleep on it.

JL

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Gonna set 'em to rights?
> m a m
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> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
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> > Our campus library now subscribes to Gale/Cengage's _17th-18th Century
> > Burney Collection of Newspapers_
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> > The catalogue erroneously describes the collection as running from
> > "1700-1899."
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> > JL
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