Antedating of "Cuneiform"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Wed May 28 22:05:15 UTC 2014


cuneiform (OED, 2., 1818)

1815 _Literary Panorama_ June 438 (ProQuest)  And in the Cuneiform alphabets may be discovered a letter of which the principal feature consists in three upright strokes.

Fred Shapiro

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