SC - Arguing with the Crown

[Jenne Heise]

> >>  No. That's the Ladies' Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society.
> >
> >Sorry, the OED records the first occurence of Terrorist to 
> 1795, and the
> >first occurence of Sewing Circle to 1846.
> 
> That's the first usage in English. Wasn't he translating from 
> Ruritanian?
> -- 
> David/Cariadoc

Perhaps that should be "Roaring Society," as in "roaring girls".  Of course,
I've been in a couple of debates about the authenticity of the Elizabethean
roaring girls.

Bear