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From: toriw@online.no (Tor Iver Wilhelmsen)
Subject: Re: Which language pays most -- C++ vs. Java?
Date: 1998/02/13
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On Thu, 12 Feb 1998 03:52:54 GMT, miker3@ix.netcom.com (Michael
Rubenstein) uttered:

>Apparently the language was lost a long time ago.  The Oxford English
>Dictionary lists quotes using "they" and "their" with singular
>antecedants  going back to the 14th century.

Webster's - which Americans seem to prefer to the OED - lists the
singular use of "they" as "Nonstandard". :-) It also lists the word as
being of Scandinavian origin, a common base for several English words.
(We did get around a bit around SY 1000. :-) )

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