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Sunday 22 August 2021

Sunday Rest: onliner. Word Not To Use Today.

 There is nothing wrong with the form, sound, appearance, or derivation of the word onliner.

It's quite a modern word, too: less than thirty-seven years old, certainly.

According to my 2010 Collins Dictionary onliner means a person who uses the internet regularly.

But nowadays, of course, we simply say person.

Sunday Rest: onliner. The word line comes from the Latin word līnea, which is a noun made from the word līneus, which means flaxen, from līnum, flax.



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