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From: Doug Geddes <>
Subject: Re: Lancaster tit bits
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 97 19:39:26 EST5EDT


Thanks Mark,

I was just teasing re the Tit Bits when I sent my message but it has sort
of got out of hand.

US dictionaries show it as Tidbits, I wonder what Oxford shows. If Tit
Bits is in the Oxford dictionary then it would show how the word has
evolved in different English speaking countries.

As a matter of interest, the Oxford dictionary and all its many variants
and all additions and deletions have been managed on a super computer by
the University of Waterloo here in Canada for a number of years.
Surprisingly few use the Oxford dictionary here because American Webster
dictionaries are so inexpensive by comparison.

Doug

At 01:31 PM 12/5/97 EST, you wrote:
>I'm sorry that Kim Holly regarded an earlier poster's query re: tidbits
versus
>titbits as "flaming." Actually, I thought it sparked a rather interesting
>discussion which illustrated how, although Canadians, Americans and Brits
have
>the same roots, they've evolved in very different and interesting ways.
>
>I'd like to see more of this. To me, it's part of putting flesh on our
>ancestors' dry bones -- always the most interesting part of genealogy.
>
>Mark E. Dixon
>Wayne, PA, USA
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