euphemistic use of "exempt"

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 09:22:40AM -0400, Christopher Philippo wrote:
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> Incidentally, if Ancestry.com ever adds some advanced search options to findagrave, it might become possible to search just the headstone transcription field there.  I don’t know if there’s any citations in the OED presently from headstones, but that could become a possibility.
> 

Yes. At PUG n.(2) sense 8 (the dog), the first, bracketed quotation is:

1702 _Inscription on Gravestone of Dutch Mastiff at Dunham Massey,
Cheshire,_ Pugg, alias Old Vertue.


Jesse Sheidlower

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