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Thread #162232 Message #3862667
Posted By: Jim Carroll
24-Jun-17 - 06:50 AM
Thread Name: BS: Time to choose on June 8th-UK Elections
Subject: RE: BS: Time to choose on June 8th-UK Elections
"Subsequent compilers, out of respect for the great man, also omitted the word and to this day it appears in no dictionary."
Not really -t was omitted from later dictionaries because it was considered a "low word" - a corruption of "cull" - not overlooked, rejected
"no dictionary."
You mean it was omitted from all Johnson's dictionaries, of course!!
Jim Carroll