| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 15, 2000, 2:52 |
John Cowan wrote:>How about "kris"? It was first used in English in 1580, according >to http://www.m-w.com .>Shorter OED agrees, give or take a few years. That date surprised me; but I suppose there were English sailors on some of the Portuguese ships?? Still and all, aside from collectors (like myself) and you, how many Engl. speakers know what a kris is?