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Coincidentally, I stumbled upon a bit of history of the word "orginal", and we seem to be caught between two competing meanings of the word. As I understand it:
Original had previously meant something in the nature of innate, as in the phrase Original Sin. The modern usage as newly created originates with John Dryden, Fables, ancient and Modern, (1700).
My source is the url below. Can anyone verify this tranmogrification?
http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues02/mar02/presence.html; 2nd paragraph from end.
Note to Max: You may find this article interesting as a whole.
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