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[Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>]

on Mon, May 19, 2003 at 07:50:12AM -0400, Josep L. Guallar-Esteve wrote:
> [1] Some samples from Dr Samuel Johnson's Dictionary, circa 1799:
> 
> lady: "a female gentleman"
> lea: "That part of a sauce which is not a perrins"
> leapfrog: "any frong born on 29 February"
> leek: "a long, thin Welsh tomato"
> left behind: "part of the sitting apparatus of a personage"
> legend: "the part of a leg not in the middle"
> 
> I must stop now :)

My favorite: 

lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies
himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of
words.

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