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Zemblan and digitized Samuel Johson (Crapula)
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Barrie Akin writes:
As for "crapula" as an English word, there is an early instance of it. It
is in Florio's Italian - English dictionary of 1611 as the English meaning
of "crapola".
Florio's dictionary is also available on line. Amazing!
Florio appears as a minor character in Anthony Burgess's 'Nothing Like the
Sun' (1964, from memory) and (again from memory) Burgess uses both
'crapula' and 'crapulous' in his works. I don't have immediate access to my
copies of 'Nothing Like the Sun' and 'Earthly Powers' but those are the
novels in which I recall Burgess uses them. There are probably others.
P.S. Apologies - it is late here in England and I have just realised that
I have misread Florio.
He gives 'crapola' as a variant of 'crapula' and then defines 'crapula'
without using any English variant of it. So 'crapula' appears in an English
work in 1611, but only as a foreign word.
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As for "crapula" as an English word, there is an early instance of it. It
is in Florio's Italian - English dictionary of 1611 as the English meaning
of "crapola".
Florio's dictionary is also available on line. Amazing!
Florio appears as a minor character in Anthony Burgess's 'Nothing Like the
Sun' (1964, from memory) and (again from memory) Burgess uses both
'crapula' and 'crapulous' in his works. I don't have immediate access to my
copies of 'Nothing Like the Sun' and 'Earthly Powers' but those are the
novels in which I recall Burgess uses them. There are probably others.
P.S. Apologies - it is late here in England and I have just realised that
I have misread Florio.
He gives 'crapola' as a variant of 'crapula' and then defines 'crapula'
without using any English variant of it. So 'crapula' appears in an English
work in 1611, but only as a foreign word.
--
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
Co-Editor, NABOKV-L
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