A list of 25 words by yarb.
- summit appears on 38 other lists
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- bedroom appears on 13 other lists
- radiance appears on 34 other lists
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- ode appears on 36 other lists
- buzzer appears on 6 other lists
- mimic appears on 26 other lists
- gust appears on 24 other lists
- eyeball appears on 15 other lists
- amazement appears on 7 other lists
- luggage appears on 20 other lists
- gossip appears on 22 other lists
- moonbeam appears on 19 other lists
- hint appears on 18 other lists
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- academe appears on 7 other lists
- bump appears on 35 other lists
- dawn appears on 68 other lists
qroqqa The vagaries of attestation. The 2nd edition OED has a line from Love's Labour's Lost, dated 1588, as its first use: 'Once more Ile read the Ode that I haue writ'. Then follows a 1589 quotation from Puttenham.
The 3rd edition has corrected the L.L.L. date to 1598, thus making Puttenham an antedate. (And it notes the 1598 spelling was Odo, changed to Ode in the First Folio.) It now also has a 1579 quotation from Spenser, plus a 1538 dictionary entry—which shouldn't really count, as it's not a use.
And why are my italic tags not coming out, eh? Apr 26, 2013
ruzuzu Wait--ode? Really? Apr 25, 2013
yarb Cool huh?
A Midsummer Night's Dream, III. ii:
"Then crush this herb into Lysander's eye;
Whose liquor hath this virtuous property, (385)
To take from thence all error with his might,
And make his eyeballs roll with wonted sight." Oct 24, 2007
reesetee Eyeball? Shakespeare coined eyeball?
I knew there was a reason for his fame. Oct 24, 2007