I suppose it is a valid point. Reminds me of the game "Operator," where you whisper something into one person's ear and it goes around the circle until the last person says what the first person supposedly said.
Mel -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gordon Keen Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 4:47 AM To: Just Chat; Where Anything Goes ... Almost! Subject: Re: Place names etc. Just to be sure that history has not developed an alternative meaning in the U.S. as so many english words have I checked this in an American dictionary as opposed to the O.E.D. Here is the link: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/history Whichever way you cut it history is a chronological record of past events that can be read. To record in any meaningful way you need writing, be it on parchment, paper or chiseled in to tablets of stone! Unfortunately oral history tends to become corrupted in the telling and peoples recollections are coloured by bias. As part of my B.A. in history we were taught to seek ought primary source material and to consider the witting and unwitting testimony from secondary sources as suspect. Regards G ======================================== The Just-chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/just-chat> You can find an archive of all messages posted to the just-chat group at either of the following: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/just-chat/index.html> or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> You may subscribe with your RSS reader at the following URL: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> ---------------------------------------
