Oxford English Dictionary Online? I'm not worried. Now, if someone tells me that such things are to be included in a new edition of H.W. Fowler's Modern English Usage, THEN I will stock up on ammo and durable goods, barricade the door and await the apocolypse....
"Before two notes of the theme were played, Colin knew it was Patrick Mor MacCrimmon's 'Lament for the Children'...Sad seven times--ah, Patrick MacCrimmon of the seven dead sons....'It's a hard tune, that', said old Angus. Hard on the piper; hard on them all; hard on the world." Butcher's Broom, by Neil Gunn, 1994 Walker & Co, NY, p. 397-8.
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