[Sca-cooks] mysterious query
Sandra Kisner
sjk3 at cornell.edu
Wed Jan 24 08:01:24 PST 2007
> > Dear Folks, sorry. I was trying to forward a query from Ruth Berman about
> > the age or historicity or earliest date of the word 'parliament' as a
> sweet, and
> > managed to loose the original message from her, as well as send you an
> empty
> > forward. *sigh* She was talking about the word showing up in the novel
> > 'Lorna Doone' and also in Conan Doyle. Something about a kid
> buying 'parliament
> > and dumps' for his friends. (And now I've lost the printed copy too. just
> > not my day.)
> > Devra
Do you know where in Conan Doyle it appeared?
Sandra
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