[Ads-l] Antedating of "Tiddlywinks"

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

> On Mar 3, 2019, at 8:52 AM, Mark Mandel <mark.a.mandel at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> And didactic.
> 
> MAM, with mirror-symmetric monogram (MOM was an artist)
> 
> On Sun, Mar 3, 2019, 10:07 AM Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
> 
>>> On Mar 2, 2019, at 9:44 AM, Arnold M. Zwicky wrote
>> 
>> meanwhile, i've advanced some on the anteater front.  now preparing a
>> posting on the silky anteater (Cyclopes didactylus):
>> 
>>  the didactyl anteater, Anteater D, aka The Antedater
>> 
>> arnold

"didactic" -- which has nothing etymologically to do with didactyly -- will be in there too.  also the Cyclops, which is only half related to Cyclopes

arnold

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