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[Jonathan Lighter]

Ugh. It's from GenealogyBank.

JL

On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 10:52 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 'A very great many.'
>
> OED has an isolated ex. from "a1700" meaning "twenty-one."
>
> 1789 _Salem [Mass.] Mercury_ (Jan. 27) 2 [Newspapers.com]: I am going to
> tell you what my old grandmother told me _eleventeen_ years ago.
>
> Etc., etc.
>
> And etc.
>
> 2023  https://writemakesmight.net/to-infinity-and-beyond-part-i-of-ii/
> <https://writemakesmight.net/to-infinity-and-beyond-part-i-of-ii/>  (Dec.
> 23): Dave didn’t win a Nobel Prize in chemistry, become a billionaire, or
> publish 27 novels in eleventeen languages.
>
> JL
> --
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
>


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