[Ads-l] Subject: "gauding", 1799 -- a remarkable survival

[Mark Mandel]

Fixed it: "I suggested signing (it)".

Marcus

On Dec 9, 2016 3:31 AM, "Wilson Gray" <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> According to the Wikipedia article,
>
> *Subscribere proposui*  means "Sign the proposed."
>
> That's just sad.
>
> On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 10:43 PM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > <Gaudeamus Igitur> must have been lurking in the background.
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaudeamus_igitur
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
> >
>
>
>
> --
> -Wilson
> -----
> 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
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org