- From: Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:00:02 +0100
- To: geoff@the-ad-man.co.za
- CC: GEOFF <geoff_louw@hotmail.com>, www-validator@w3.org
GEOFF wrote: > "Revalidate" is in any case not a real word. Really ? How do you define "a real word" ? I would have thought that an appearance as a headword in the Oxford English Dictionary of 1933, with citations dating back as far 1602 [1], would normally be regarded as sufficient evidence for a putative word to be classified as "real". Philip Taylor -------- [1] 1602 T. Fitzherbert Apol. 13 That his confession vpon torment was voyd in Law and ... that his ratification thereof at the barre could not reualidate the same. 1895 Month Mar. 319 The intrusion was ordinarily revalidated by a formal ceremony of of election duly conducted.
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