[Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Easter Bunny"

[David Barnhart]

Wilson wrote:

>One of the horrors of longevity is seeing a once-great language 
> dissolve into word-salad before one's very eyes and knowing that there 
> is nothing that one can do. :-(

Yes, and there's no dressing to ease the pain. And, it doesn't get any
easier to witness.  

DKB

barnhart at highlands.com

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Yeah, the Beowulf poet felt the same way.

JL

On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 8:59 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 7:50 PM, Jonathan Lighter 
> <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
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> > > The "a couple _of_ ..." of my lost youth has died out, apparently.
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> > Only apparently, Wilson, since that's the only way I'd ever say it.
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> God be praised!
>
> One of the horrors of longevity is seeing a once-great language 
> dissolve into word-salad before one's very eyes and knowing that there 
> is nothing that one can do. :-(
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> --
> -Wilson
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> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint 
> to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -Mark Twain
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