[Ads-l] Antedating of "Wife" (Sense 7.b. in OED)

[Mark Mandel]

Is "interrput" a typo in the source (so should be +"[sic]") or in your
entry?

Mark Mandel

On Fri, Nov 26, 2021, 1:02 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:

> wife (OED, 7.b., 1896)
>
> 1883 Alienist and Neurologist IV. 89 or 90 (ProQuest)  An incident
> occurred in 1876 to *interrput* the quiet monotony of this Lesbian love.
> "Joe" and her assumed wife made a visit to a neighboring village.
>
> NOTE: It may be that this citation should be put in square brackets in the
> OED.
>
> Fred Shapiro
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