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Re:'Oldest English words' identified by sedm0784 on Friday February 27, 2009 @05:36AM (#497091)
The linguists at Language Log don't think too highly of this article (and the BBC radio segment on the same topic):

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1186

Choice comment: "This is probably one of the most abysmal failures of science journalism ever."

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