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auntieavril

1st August 2014, 07:46
17d Earliest version of a piece of writing ?r?e?t
Thought of truest but not sure
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chrise

1st August 2014, 07:50
The E might be wrong.
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chrise

1st August 2014, 07:51
Ignore that - the two spellings of the word I was thinking of have 5 or 7 letters; neither has 6!
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auntieavril

1st August 2014, 08:06
Cracked it at last - the word is urtext ! Not something I have heard of before.
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rusty

1st August 2014, 10:21
A new word to me, too, AuntieAvril!
Always learning!
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rossim

1st August 2014, 10:27
And to me too!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urtext
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chrise

1st August 2014, 10:51
"ur" means "primitive", so I suspect that it really should be written ur-text
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jazzgirl

1st August 2014, 10:59
hi chrisE
Dare I mention that Chambers shows it as one word (non-hyphenated) ;)
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chrise

1st August 2014, 11:02
Hi Jazzy
Yes, and so does rossim's link

However there are lots of similar constructions that start ur-.

Both variations shown here
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ur-
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jazzgirl

1st August 2014, 11:03
Yes, of course you are (ur). . right :)
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