"English" -- a verb (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Gordon, Matthew J.]

OED also has the semantic opposite in Latin (v):

Thomas Wilson (1553) "The‥foolishe phantasticall that smelles but of learnyng‥will so latine their tongues, that the simple cannot but wonder at their talke."


-Matt Gordon

On Jun 30, 2011, at 2:56 PM, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:

>
> OED has _English_ v. 'to translate into English' from the 15th century,
> and 'to transform into plain English; to describe in plain terms' from
> 1616 to 1942 ("Now rare").
>
> Jesse Sheidlower
> OED
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org