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[Edward Callary]

Anyone want a complete (I think) run of the Newsletter of the American Dialect Society, vols. 1.1 thru 37.3, mint condition? Let me know.


Edward Callary
Professor of Linguistics
English Department
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115
ecallary at niu.edu
815 753 6627


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Subject:      "the long vacation disease", 1707
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"Henry Higden of the Temple, Counsellor, was so miserably troubled 
with the Long Vacation Disease, or the Defectus Crumene [lack of 
funds], that the Sage Benchers of the House threatened to Padlock his 
Chamber-door for non-payment of Rent"

(See Wikepedia for "Henry Higden", member of the Middle Temple, wit, 
and companion of all the choice spirits of the ttown.)

JSB

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