That was me, and I did not mean to say the OED stated that, but that I took that meaning from reading through the examples of usage that OED gave that spanned several centuries.

Nothing to do with CS, but an interesting thread. Time to move it to the OT list probably if we want to continue it.
sol


[email protected] wrote:

Who ever said that it has not been used in America for a long time was wrong and they probably need to climb off their University pedestal and take a walk around the country.



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