[Ads-l] fu lion - 1913, foo dog - 1915, foo lion - 1918

[Benjamin Barrett]

> On 15 Feb 2016, at 20:01, Douglas G. Wilson <douglas at NB.NET> wrote:
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> On 2/15/2016 9:14 PM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
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>> Subject:      fu lion - 1913, foo dog - 1915, foo lion - 1918
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>> Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_guardian_lions) =
>> provides a link to a paper on =E2=80=9Cfoo=E2=80=9D (not on the Oxford =
>> Dictionary site, though the word =E2=80=9Cfoo=E2=80=9D evidently is =
>> cited from Chaucer). The link is:
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>> http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3092.txt
>> 
>> Here are links to earliest citations I found on Google Books with =
>> summary information. All are Google-dated.
>> 
>> 1. fu lion - 1913 - http://bit.ly/1TmKb3C
>> 
>> [completely illegible to my eyes]
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>> 2. foo dog - 1915 - http://bit.ly/1PXMnfv
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>> The bat, the bird, the butterfly, the dragon, the kylin, the Food dog, =
>> the leopard, =E2=80=A6
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>> 3. foo lion - 1918 - http://bit.ly/20A8gTG
>> 
>> Sacred Foo Lion of Cloisonn=C3=A9=20
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> Item #1 appears to read "fiction" rather than "fu lion".
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> -- Doug Wilson

You’re right. Thank you for the correction! BB
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