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Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Word or Phrase We Never Use Anymore of the Day

Anteloquy; A preface, or the first turn in speaking.
                    - Thomas Blount's Glassographia, 1656


A term which stage-players use, by them called their 'cue'.
                    - Henry Cockeram's Interpreter of Hard English Words, 1623


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