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The watre of that see is fulle bytter and salt: and ziff the erthe were made moyst and weet with that watre, it wolde nevere bere fruyt.
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And ziff it hadde ryveres and welles, and the lond also were, as it is in other parties, it scholde ben als fulle of peple and als fulle enhabyted with folk, as in other places.
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The watre of that see is fulle bytter and salt: and ziff the erthe were made moyst and weet with that watre, it wolde nevere bere fruyt.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And ziff it hadde ryveres and welles, and the lond also were, as it is in other parties, it scholde ben als fulle of peple and als fulle enhabyted with folk, as in other places.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Wii-volution 2010
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And ziff it hadde ryveres and welles, and the lond also were, as it is in other parties, it scholde ben als fulle of peple and als fulle enhabyted with folk, as in other places.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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The watre of that see is fulle bytter and salt: and ziff the erthe were made moyst and weet with that watre, it wolde nevere bere fruyt.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Rod B, I really wasn't sure what they (whoever ziff is quoting) were trying to say - it seemed to be self-contradictory, or at least incomplete.
RealClimate 2009
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Maya (72), in your answer to ziff you are terribly misreading or misrepresenting the
RealClimate 2009
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Maya (72), in your answer to ziff you are terribly misreading or misrepresenting the
RealClimate 2009
chained_bear commented on the word ziff
OED: "Austral. (and N.Z.) slang. Origin unknown. A beard." First usage given is 1919; last in 1981.
October 10, 2008
bilby commented on the word ziff
Never heard it.
October 11, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word ziff
That might be because the last usage noted was in 1981.
October 12, 2008
bilby commented on the word ziff
About the time of last known beards too.
October 12, 2008