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[Mark Crispin]

On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Doug Ewell wrote:
>> Description: Late Middle French (before 1606?)
> Please, let's do away with this question mark.  It will merely make the user 
> unsure of the purpose of the tag.  Better to just say "(before 1606)" in the 
> spirit of ISO 639 descriptions, which also assign more-or-less precise 
> boundary dates.

If the intent of the question mark is to suggest approximation, then 
"(before c.1606)" would accomplish that.  However, in the context, it 
seems to be that the problem is with "before"; the describing documents 
are dated 1606, hence simply "(c.1606)" should do.

-- Mark --

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