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Latest comment: 6 months ago by Denazz in topic RFV discussion: December 2023–June 2024

is there any proof of this being used in any dialects? a pronunciation would be nice too

RFV discussion: December 2023–June 2024

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After 1500? Ioaxxere (talk) 03:18, 14 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

I don't have access to the OED, so can someone please check ? I know it lasted up till near the end of the Middle English period, but not sure if slightly after that (except as a prefix, which I know endured till early 1600's). Leasnam (talk) 03:37, 14 December 2023 (UTC)Reply
The 1933 OED doesn't list any cites more recent than 1450 AFAICT (but most cites it lists are from before 1300, so if you happen to know the word was still common in the 1400s, the OED's coverage may just be too incomplete to draw any conclusions from; I also don't have the modern OED). EEBO has 15 results, but they are scannos of "number", "dumb(e)", some (proper?) noun Umbe, or instances of Coleumbe etc split across a line break. - -sche (discuss) 06:09, 14 December 2023 (UTC)Reply
Nothing modern in OED Online. Good find! Note you would need to search EEBO for vmbe too. This, that and the other (talk) 06:26, 14 December 2023 (UTC)Reply
Sadly I'm not seeing any results for vmbe. Vmb turns up Vmb. as an abbreviated (?)name, and -vmb- as a non-English word or as a string of letters which forms part of an English or non-English word (vmba, etc); likewise umb (the hits are umbatilis, scannos of number or dumb, etc). - -sche (discuss) 15:04, 14 December 2023 (UTC)Reply