M & D Group Read (cont.)

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Tue Jan 23 01:48:21 CST 2018


"Chinaman" in Against the Day; 3 occurences, all in an opium context:

- AD One 8.1: 82 (no - and his opium)
- AD Two 16.1: 191 (Smoking opium with the -)
- AD Three 36.7: 496 (opium products [...] -)

Michel.





On 2018-01-22 22:44, Jochen Stremmel wrote:
> And as a bit of evidence that the resourceful wikipedians don't know
> everything:
> "In its original sense, Chinaman is almost entirely absent from
> British English, and has been since before 1965."
> 
> The original sense obviously being: "a dealer of china". A British
> English speaker in London in the 2nd half of the 18th century could
> only mean that. (A new twist to the joak.)
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