# Did people in the 19th century really speak this way?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 9, 2011, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-people-in-the-19th-century-really-speak-this-way/577756 "2011-04-09T04:00:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 11, 2011, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-people-in-the-19th-century-really-speak-this-way/577756/21 "2011-04-11T08:04:34Z")

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> [@t-bonham@scc.net](#):
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> Are you seriously claiming that someone other than Lincoln wrote that speech?

No. I didn’t know who wrote the speech, which is why I used the disjunctive construction “Lincoln, or whoever devised that speech” to cover both possibilities.

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