Returning to the original question - I am just reading the Forsyte Saga and there is a reference to Soames having relocated his office some "two and twenty years" earlier. This is in the volume "The white monkey" which was published in 1924. With Galsworthy it is probably more of a literary device rather than common usage as his prose is rather florid. In that sense one might even use this way of referring to numbers today.
Lutenists may be crabby but that's nothing to baroque guitarists who fight like tom cats over every little thing! As ever Monica ----Original Message---- From: [email protected] Date: 28/01/2018 18:47 To: "Lute net"<[email protected]> Subj: [LUTE] Re: Four and Twenty Fiddlers: The Violin at the English Court, 1540-1690 Oops - of course I said Farewell to Mr. Swine. Rainer On 28.01.2018 19:24, G. C. wrote: > Lieber Rainer, > lass doch nicht die besoffenen Kommentare eines vollkommen unbekanten > Narres, zu solche dramatische Konsequenz führen. Wir brauchen dich > noch alle! > Viele Grüsse > G. > > On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 6:13 PM, Rainer <[1]RadS.BERA_GmbH@t- online.de> > wrote: > > Timothy Swain (an old, old former lutenist who cannot help but > be > astonished by ridiculous matters being brought up...) > > I think it's time to leave the mailing list now. > Farewell > Rainer > To get on or off this list see list information at > [2]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > -- > > References > > 1. mailto:[email protected] > 2. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > >
