Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ross Clark Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: William Caxton finished his translation of Aesop's Fables (26-3-1483/4) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 23:08:04 +1300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 4 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: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 10:08:09 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a4e6367de49bd6ae0aa4826017f2385c"; logging-data="2926157"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1905Ir89xxsN67S3Q5ddDHIsukb8kr2Oj8=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:1mxLImOdpOFbeJY4Bf0O5gmP2G4= X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://news.eternal-september.org:119 Content-Language: en-GB Bytes: 1298 England's first printer, and first English translator of a number of works, so that's language-relevant. Crystal spends half his page explaining a tricky point about the date, but I still don't get it.