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To: Age of Reason
You still don't get it! ROTFLOL

Different dictionaries, even those with Webster in the title, don't list definitions in the same order, nor, for that matter, include as many definitions of a specific word.

BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ! You've lost this round, as you've lost every single other one.

You're beating the dust of this long dead horse and just continuing your fool's progress. ;^)

I guess that you're just so lonely, that any attention is preferable to being ignored completely; which you are so used to.

582 posted on 09/20/2005 10:26:12 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons
Different dictionaries, even those with Webster in the title, don't list definitions in the same order, nor, for that matter, include as many definitions of a specific word.

But Webster's is not the only dictionary. And neither have we compared all the editions of all dictionaries through the years to follow the progress--if of the changing meaning of the word, virgin.

And we also should know that not all dictionaries agree exactly with others of the same time.

But had we a large enough sample, we might better chart any change in the meaning of virgin.

So why not just look at the number 1 definition of the word, virgin through the years.

Surely there will more agreement about the number 1 use of a word even in different editions of the same vintage from the same publisher.

And so, what is the number 1 definition in your books?

Man, Woman, or Person?

586 posted on 09/20/2005 10:47:00 PM PDT by Age of Reason
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