Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ross Clark Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: Arthur Conan Doyle born (22-5-1859) Date: Thu, 23 May 2024 23:19:22 +1200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 7 Message-ID: Reply-To: r.clark@auckland.ac.nz MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 23 May 2024 13:19:33 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="902b1c7c7fe76f32118adf5d8b47f658"; logging-data="1826595"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19u99EV90Xs/BWyJbJv5Z0EMPvHhvFKZvI=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:k7Zfjy6iN0Lz9ddIVaGdaRm6mZE= Content-Language: en-GB X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://news.eternal-september.org:119 Bytes: 1337 "I haven't found linguistic topics discussed in his writing, apart from passing references...." Still, a solid Victorian, interested in all kinds of things: medicine, cricket, body-building, fairies.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle