Common Reader

[David Payne]

If you're looking for the history of a word or phrase, try Google's Ngram, e.g.:

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=common+reader&year_start=600&&year_end=012&&corpus=5&&smoothing=&&share=

I think that older results are sometimes polluted by introductions in re-printed works, but it's still a pretty cool tool
 		 	   		  
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