Re: Speedwords hare (was: Some new Brithenig words? Narbonosc help?)
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 25, 2001, 3:07 |
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On Thu, 24 May 2001 06:16:38 +0000, Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>
wrote:
>At 10:10 pm -0400 23/5/01, Herman Miller wrote:
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>>How old is Speedwords? Lagomorphs were once classified as a suborder of
>>rodents (Duplicidentata).
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>Its origins are in the 1930s; it reached its final form in 1951.
Well, lagomorphs were separated from rodents sometime in the early decades
of the 20th century, but I think they were already classified separately
before the 1930s. Perhaps some out of date textbooks in the 1930s might
have still referred to them as rodents. But probably Dutton was using
"rodent" in a more abstract sense (lagomorphs and rodents are superficially
similar).
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