[Ads-l] Britspeak :spin, span(!), spun

[David Barnhart]

Not a lot of _span_.  DARE and OED have it from 1850's and DARE even has one
from 1980's.

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11 July 2014
"A[n air]craft being flown at the Paris airshow _span_ out of control and
crashed."

http://www.urbanghostsmedia.com/2014/07/10-abandoned-churches-mortuary-chape
ls-cathedrals/

I recall something from somewhere, somewhen (a casual Googling: 1651)

When Adam delved
And Eve _span_,
Who was, then,
The gentleman?

_Spann_ is the OE past, but I had no idea that anyone still used it.

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