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Italian Dictionary's "Cricket-a-wicket" doubted as reference to the Game of Cricket
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Text | "People have often regarded Florio's expression in his Italian Dictionary (1598) cricket-a-wicket as the first mention [cf #158.2 and #1598.3, above] of the noble game. It were strange indeed if this great word first dropped from the pen of an Italian! I have no doubt myself that this is a mere coincidence of sound. . . . [C]ricket-a-wicket must pair off with 'helter-skelter,' higgledy-piggledy, and Tarabara to which Florio gives gives cricket-a-wicket as an equivalent." A.G. Steel and R. H. Lyttelton, Cricket, (Longmans Green, London, 1890) 4th edition, page 6. Note: do later writers agree that this was mere coincidence? |
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1598. Italian Dictionary's "Cricket-a-wicket" doubted as reference to the Game of Cricket"
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