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From: Renia <>
Subject: Re: Armiger means Esquire
Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 08:09:50 +0300
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wrote:
> Dear Newsgroup ~
>
> I came across the following item taken from Gentleman's Magazine
> published in 1826:
>
> http://books.google.com/books?id=qfQRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA227&dq=armiger+esquire&lr=
>
> The author asks the question:
>
> "Why does he not inform the unlearned that Armiger means Esquire?"
>
> Good question.


Indeed, it was a question, stated by someone who believed it was fact.
That does not make it fact.

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