pipewater (UNCLASSIFIED)

Mullins, Bill AMRDEC Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL
Thu Aug 2 14:04:09 UTC 2012


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Newspaperarchive has digitized a run of the Kingston Jamaica _Gleaner_.
Searching for "pipe water" has 3000+ hits starting in 1866 and going
forward.

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> David Barnhart
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> Subject: pipewater (1466) AND MORE
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> Not an entry in DARE, Chapman, Green, Farmer & Henley, Farmer, Cassidy
(D.
> of Jamaican E.), Holm, etc.
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> _Pipe-water_ is an entry in OED with earliest date of 1466.  It's also
in
> Alsopp's _Dict. Of Caribbean English Usage_.
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> The latter suggests that in some places it is the best water.
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> Regards,
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> David
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> barnhart at highlands.com
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