On 11/1/2015 9:13 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> On 1-11-2015 10:03, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:

>> If you move up a folder, it seems to have other chapters too. But I
>> still don't know which version of the book it is. (Or why it's legal to
>> put it on the web like this...)
>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,_Inc.

> The version I found on Google says 'Second Edition' which seems to be
> 1986 ("The Purple Dragon Book").
>
> It looks like the universities (Bremen, Stanford) put it online for
> their students, but why it has gone public is strange, except if the
> author has accepted to have the book in both forms. I know of at least
> one other example where this is the case indeed (a study book of Old
> English grammar).
>

Interesting, do you have a link?
I have an original Old English grammar book from the 18th (?) Century. I 
don't have it to hand but the font is one of those that has the letter 
"s" looks like a "f" when it is inside the word. It also said that there 
were only two tenses, present and past. IIRC

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Regards
     Stephen

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