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|Year=1598 | |||
|Year Number=4 | |||
|Headline=Italian Dictionary's "Cricket-a-wicket" doubted as reference to the Game of Cricket | |Headline=Italian Dictionary's "Cricket-a-wicket" doubted as reference to the Game of Cricket | ||
|Salience=2 | |Salience=2 | ||
|Text=<p>"People have often regarded Florio's expression in his Italian Dictionary (1598) < | |Text=<p>"People have often regarded Florio's expression in his Italian Dictionary (1598) <em>cricket-a-wicket</em> as the first mention (cf #[[1598.2]] and #[[1598.3]], above) of the noble game. It were strange indeed if this great word first dropped from the pen of an Italian! I have no doubt myself that this is a mere coincidence of sound. . . . [C]ricket-a-wicket must pair off with 'helter-skelter,' higgledy-piggledy, and <em>Tarabara</em> to which Florio gives gives cricket-a-wicket as an equivalent."</p> | ||
<p>A.G. Steel and R. H. Lyttelton, < | <p> </p> | ||
|Sources=<p>A.G. Steel and R. H. Lyttelton, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Cricket,</span> (Longmans Green, London, 1890) 4<sup>th</sup> edition, page 6.</p> | |||
|Query=<p>Note: do later writers agree that this was mere coincidence?</p> | |||
|Reviewed=Yes | |Reviewed=Yes | ||
| | |Has Supplemental Text=No | ||
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| Text | "People have often regarded Florio's expression in his Italian Dictionary (1598) cricket-a-wicket as the first mention (cf #1598.2 and #1598.3, above) of the noble game. It were strange indeed if this great word first dropped from the pen of an Italian! I have no doubt myself that this is a mere coincidence of sound. . . . [C]ricket-a-wicket must pair off with 'helter-skelter,' higgledy-piggledy, and Tarabara to which Florio gives gives cricket-a-wicket as an equivalent."
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| Sources | A.G. Steel and R. H. Lyttelton, Cricket, (Longmans Green, London, 1890) 4th edition, page 6. |
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