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Has the use of these prepositions evolved?
I have been working with an extract from an 1861 newspaper (in Queensland, now part of Australia) concerning an act of mass insubordination by seamen.
The text reads
The whole of the men, I am ...
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Are older senses of “anent” still alive in any dialect?
The obscure preposition anent has a long history, going back as far as Beowulf:
him on efn ligeð ealdorgewinna [line 2903]
("beside him lies his great enemy")
It has carried many meanings, ...
