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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!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: Byron died (19-4-1824) Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2024 12:46:27 +1200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 24 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: Sat, 20 Apr 2024 02:46:34 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="42d82296122a5157b0ff817acaa872c8"; logging-data="3456822"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18+LHWQLnhu4o48PLJPth+W/0qgGVH0CZo=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:OEXFLZiEmiENbZ58ViY5k1SH7fw= X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://news.eternal-september.org:119 Content-Language: en-GB Bytes: 1902 Yes, the famous poet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Byron A linguistic observation by Byron: "...few are slow In thinking that their enemy is beat (Or beaten, if you insist on grammar, though I never think about it in a heat)..." (Don Juan, canto 7, stanza 42 -- describing a battle between the Russians and the Turks) I actually cited this passage (among others from OED) in an a.u.e. discussion about the passive participle "beat". It is used by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dryden, John Wesley, Lord Nelson and many others, but Byron's is an interesting indication that by his time prescriptive grammarians considered it "incorrect". The other Byron quote (too long to copy) is about meeting the celebrated "hyperpolyglot", Cardinal Mezzofanti. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Caspar_Mezzofanti