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Thread #157044 Message #3708310
Posted By: Lighter
11-May-15 - 06:24 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Barbara Allen
Subject: RE: Origins: Barbara Allen
It never occurred to me to check the OED for "ear." Obviously I'm slipping.
It isn't even obsolete regionally. The OED affords a transitive example from Wiltshire in 2004!
Note to the editors: next time include "eer" as a 19th century spelling variant.
> Buchan would not be behindhand with his knowledge of these works.
No, he almost surely would not.