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The fact that Graham has found that citations for such usage exist (how old they may be is of little consequence) is not to be construed as evidence that they (necessarily) existed in sufficient profusion to warrant acceptance by the English-speaking populations.
Not more than about 400 words have been borrowed altogether, and yet of these some 60 come from Dharuk, the language which was spoken on the site now occupied by the city of Sydney and not much beyond it, which existed in an inland and a coastal dialect.
And they wouldn't have existed as a social group if FDR--who, tragically, died before he got a chance to witness the mainstreaming of rock 'n' roll--hadn't invented them.
The mud was not formed into bricks, and the structures were considered temporary, even though many have existed for decades.
Such a study, if it actually existed, yields significant insight into the thinking of al Qaeda's leaders: (1) they rejected hijackings aimed at gaining the release of imprisoned comrades as too complex, because al Qaeda had no friendly countries in which to land a plane and then negotiate; (2) they considered the bombing of commercial flights in midair-as carried out against Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland- a promising means to inflict massive casualties; and (3) they did not yet consider using hijacked aircraft as weapons against other targets.