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From: docdwarf@clark.net ()
Subject: Re: Which language pays most -- C++ vs. Java?
Date: 1998/02/12
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In article <34e37094.260332117@nntp.ix.netcom.com>,
Michael Rubenstein <miker3@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
[snippage]
>
>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.

Usages certainly do become archaic, true... but I am wondering if in this
instance we are not trying to have archaic and eat it, too.  My OED is a
moderately unwieldly tome; might you provide a citing to which I might
turn for verification, lest we find we are unable to hie ourselves hence
this wold?

DD