"English" -- a verb (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Jonathan Lighter]

OED has cites from a1450 to 1995.


JL

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC <
Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:

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> _Gibecičre_ Vol. 01 No. 02 (Summer 2006) p. 7
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> "Lori Pieper, the head translator for the Conjuring Arts Research Center in
> New York, Englished this information from the German, so that Matsuyama
> could evaluate it and incorporate it into his article."
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