molest, n.

[Joel S. Berson]

At 6/27/2011 07:28 PM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
>expanded discussion:
>
>http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/molest-n/

Help!  From 1865 to 1994 is a "much bigger gap" than from 1647 to 1865"?!

Unless you believe, as some do, that the OED has eliminated the 18th
century from linguistic history.  :-)

Joel

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