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Wiki Education assignment: LIBR 1 Working with Sources
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 18 January 2023 and 20 May 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Cayladd (article contribs).
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Issue concerning Etymology
The attribution to Sir Walter Scott for the earliest attested use in print is in fact correct; this is supported by the Oxford English Dictionary. Although the publication date of the New York: Rudd & Carleton edition of The Life and Times of Hugh Miller is printed as 1809 (MDCCCIX), this is surely an error. It is a biography of the Scottish geologist and writer, born 1802, which was published in 1858 and reprinted in 1859. Falzōn (talk) 02:41, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
- I agree with you. The book, after all, references events dating to the 1830s and 1840s, just on the pages I scanned for the purpose of locating such dated references. In addition, I'm looking at this PDF, , and the "I" on PDF page 4 looks is certainly a broken "L", as the bottom serif is messy for an "I", and, if it is an "I", there's too much space between it and the "X" to its right ("MDCCCI X"), compared to the letter spacing throughout the rest of that Roman number. Finally, the introduction, at its end on book page 12 (PDF page 19), is dated "10th March, 1858". It's clear to me that its publication year was MDCCCLX, 1860. Largoplazo (talk) 10:52, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
- I've removed the mention of the Hugh Miller book from the article. Largoplazo (talk) 11:06, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
Wiki Education assignment: Introduction to Technical and Professional Communication
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