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Olde Crone
20-01-16, 21:38
Rudyard Kipling did NOT coin the phrase "Known unto God".
I saw this used in a parish register on the Isle of Man for the early 1800s when describing unknown sailors etc who were shipwrecked. The vicar also used the phrase for body parts which had been washed up.
OC
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