Thank god it was settled with no fisticuffs. Everybody knows how bloody those etymological arguments can get.
BTW: "A" is not only the first word in the OED, it is the first FOUR entries; they cover a combined four pages of blah-blah.
/fit of Clavin-Snapple Syndrome
They could have just looked.
Oh wait, I get it -- the idea of actually owning a dictionary is probably peculiar to them.
It may be more profound than that. The act of reading may be a foreign concept for both.
What will you come up with next, Mr. Paine?
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