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Provisioning for the Next Year (Linux Journal)

Provisioning for the Next Year (Linux Journal)

Posted Jan 6, 2006 17:31 UTC (Fri) by tgb (guest, #745)
In reply to: Provisioning for the Next Year (Linux Journal) by Baylink
Parent article: Provisioning for the Next Year (Linux Journal)

According to OED, the word was being used in the early 1800's to talk about food supplies. Thanks to a wonderul BBC program running at the moment, you can browse all words beginning with P in the OED. Here's the entry for "provisioned", which has its earliest usage in 1805 (click-through licence, basically saying you won't download huge numbers of word definitions)


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