Account Options

  1. Sign in
The old Google Groups will be going away soon.
Switch to the new Google Groups.
Google Groups Home
« Groups Home
alt.folklore.urban
+ new post
About this group
Subscribe to this group
This is a Usenet group - learn more
Message from discussion gullible [WAS: [OT] Entomology of fuck?]
The group you are posting to is a Usenet group. Messages posted to this group will make your email address visible to anyone on the Internet.
Your reply message has not been sent.
Your post was successful
 
From:
To:
Cc:
Followup To:
Add Cc | Add Followup-to | Edit Subject
Subject:
Validation:
For verification purposes please type the characters you see in the picture below or the numbers you hear by clicking the accessibility icon. Listen and type the numbers you hear
 
Donna Richoux  
View profile  
 More options Feb 27 2002, 7:51 am
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban, alt.usage.english
From: t...@euronet.nl (Donna Richoux)
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 13:51:58 +0100
Local: Wed, Feb 27 2002 7:51 am
Subject: gullible [WAS: [OT] Entomology of fuck?]
Print | View thread | Show original | Report this message | Find messages by this author

Hugh Gibbons <hgibb...@x-remove-xaxs4u.net> wrote:
> In article <7gjm7uc8n5657hoehvv5o2p62gd04u3...@4ax.com>, Randy Poe
> <rpo...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> > But "gullible" isn't.

> Wouldn't it be lovely if Websters published a dictionary like that?

Well, Noah Webster did. Cross my heart and hope to die, "gullible" is
not in his 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language.

GULL
GULL
GULLCATCHER
GULLED
GULLER
GULLERY
GULLIED
GULLISH
GULLISHNESS
GULLY
GULLY
GULLYHOLE
GULOSITY

There's an on-line version, the die-hard skeptics should look for
themselves. http://www.christiantech.com/

Now I have to see if "gullible" is in the 1913 Webster's... Yes, with
the name "Burke" given as a citation, but without a full quote. A bit of
web-searching doesn't turn it up; there have been various famous Burkes.
Perhaps someone with an O.E.D. can look to see if the quote is in there?
Or other early quotes? I'll cross-post this to a.u.e to increase the
number of O.E.D. owners.

--
Donna "don't you dare tell me 'gullible' isn't in the OED" Richoux


 
You must Sign in before you can post messages.
To post a message you must first join this group.
Please update your nickname on the subscription settings page before posting.
You do not have the permission required to post.
Create a group - Google Groups - Google Home - Terms of Service - Privacy Policy
©2012 Google