Timeline for Where does the idiom "Queen Anne is dead!" come from?
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| Mar 8, 2021 at 21:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/1369030174046584839 | ||
| Mar 8, 2021 at 0:56 | comment | added | k1eran | I have never heard this (in Ireland). | |
| Jan 9, 2013 at 16:35 | history | protected | RegDwigнt | ||
| Oct 13, 2012 at 12:04 | comment | added | user27395 | I'm British and in my early forties (in 2012) and, whilst I have mostly come across the phrase "Queen Anne is dead" in literature (often in early Twentieth Century novels, I've found), I have heard it used in day to day conversation (and indeed I've used it myself on rare occasions) so it's not quite moribund yet — less dead than Queen Anne anyway! | |
| Sep 23, 2011 at 21:57 | answer | added | Dave | timeline score: 7 | |
| Sep 7, 2011 at 19:17 | comment | added | Phonics The Hedgehog | abviously the term was coined AFTER Queen Anne died. | |
| Jan 5, 2011 at 16:45 | answer | added | Martin Humphrey | timeline score: -1 | |
| Dec 24, 2010 at 1:17 | answer | added | PLL | timeline score: 5 | |
| Nov 17, 2010 at 13:11 | vote | accept | Elkomie | ||
| Nov 14, 2010 at 10:11 | answer | added | JohnoBoy | timeline score: 11 | |
| Nov 14, 2010 at 4:55 | history | edited | mmyers | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Nov 13, 2010 at 15:07 | history | asked | Elkomie | CC BY-SA 2.5 |