[Ads-l] White lye (1567)

[Ben Zimmer]

See also these release notes from an OED update last year.

http://public.oed.com/the-oed-today/recent-updates-to-the-oed/september-2017-update/release-notes-white-lie-and-shakespeares-world/

On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 1:12 AM, ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com
> wrote:

> One of my twitter followers pointed to a short article about an
> antedating of "white lie" ("White lye") to April 10, 1567. The
> discoverer is a member of a volunteer group creating transcriptions.
>
> https://daily.zooniverse.org/2018/03/01/zooniverse-
> volunteer-discovers-white-lies-are-200-years-older-than-
> previously-thought/
>
>

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