Re: mathematics

From: Kent Paul Dolan (xanthian_at_well.com)
Date: 12/02/04 

Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 05:36:31 +0000 (UTC)

"Acid Pooh" <poopdeville@gmail.com> wrote:

[cudiments]

> It's not in the unabridged oxford english
> dictionary, so patty apparently just coined it.

Nope, she's not the first person to have used it
that way on the net:

http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:9uJ8QAG3FrsJ:www.wvgazette.com/cgi-bin/wwwthreads/showflat.pl%3FCat%3D%26Board%3Dmountain%26Number%3D32959%26page%3D%26view%3D%26sb%3D%26part%3D7%26vc%3D1+cudiments&hl=en

so more likely it's a regionalism not popular enough
(or old enough) to rate a dictionary entry.

HTH

xanthian.

Do you have any _idea_ what the update cycle is for
the ODE? It's hardly an authority for whether a
word is in current use, just for whether it was in
use a centry ago. 

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