[Vwoolf] On or about

[Harish Trivedi]

And to make it "On [sic]..." would perhaps reflect even more poorly on the
quoter.

I wish we could use Joyce as a precedent for English usage!


Harish Trivedi




On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 at 14:00, Caroline Webb via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>
wrote:

> I once saw a scornful reference to someone having quoted “on or about
> December 1910” implying that the quoter was a poor quoter/reference/writer.
> Caroline From: Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces+caroline. webb=newcastle. edu. au@
> lists. osu. edu> On Behalf
>
> I once saw a scornful reference to someone having quoted “on or about
> December 1910” implying that the quoter was a poor
> quoter/reference/writer.
>
>
>
> Caroline
>
>
>
> *From:* Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces+caroline.webb=
> newcastle.edu.au at lists.osu.edu> *On Behalf Of *Mark Hussey via Vwoolf
> *Sent:* Friday, April 12, 2024 11:11 PM
> *To:* 'Edward Mendelson' <edward.mendelson at columbia.edu>;
> vwoolf at lists.osu.edu
> *Subject:* Re: [Vwoolf] On or about
>
>
>
> Maybe it's in the sense of OED I.i.2.b.
> Around, with respect to (an axis, pivot, centre of revolution, etc.)
> i.e. --Sometime around December (as in the sense of keeping something
> 'about' one's person)
>
> Or as Joyce uses it in the Eumaeus episode of Ulysses : 'Lionel's air in
> Martha, M'appari, which,..he heard, or overheard, to be more accurate, on
> yesterday....'
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces at lists.osu.edu> On Behalf Of Edward Mendelson
> via Vwoolf
> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2024 7:46 AM
> To: vwoolf at lists.osu.edu
> Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] On or about
>
> The text of the essay in the Penguin collection “A Woman’s Essays” (p. 72)
> silently corrects it to what the editor seems to have thought Viriginia
> Woolf ought to have written but didn’t: “In or about December 1910…”
>
> The textual note at the head of the essay says it is reprinted from the
> Hogarth Press pamphlet. But the Hogarth Press pamphlet has “On” not “In”.
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