Proposed new variant subtag: pre1917

[John Cowan]

Avram Lyon scripsit:

> As always, thank you for your careful consideration of my requests and
> your help in formulating them appropriately.

Thank *you*.  That's a great description of the purpose of this list:
we carefully consider requests for language subtags and help to formulate
them appropriately.

Michael, Doug, anyone who talks about us in public: please take note.

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Principles.  You can't say A is         John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org>
made of B or vice versa.  All mass      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
is interaction.  --Richard Feynman