Were it not for Abraham Lincoln the term “fourscore” would not just be forgotten but possibly never ever surfaced beyond the middle ages when it was an occasionally used phrase to represent 80 years? Lincoln rescued the phrase at Gettysburg by adding the number seven to represent the time span from the Declaration of Independence […]
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