Wikipedia
I just edited a wikipedia entry. I rarely (okay, never) do this, except that this particular page made a claim about the meaning that a word had in the English language in the year 1100 BC.
To be clear: most linguists would agree that in the year 1100 BC, the English language had yet to grace the earth in any form. The ancestors of the people who would one day begin speaking English were probably speaking Proto-Indo-European or Proto-Germanic at the time.
As it turns out, the actual date of the specified event is on or before 1500 AD, according to the OED, or "by the fourteenth century" according to the Online Etymology Dictionary. Technically, anything that occurred in 1100 BC happened before 1500 and by the fourteenth century. So, actually, wikipedia was right!
To be clear: most linguists would agree that in the year 1100 BC, the English language had yet to grace the earth in any form. The ancestors of the people who would one day begin speaking English were probably speaking Proto-Indo-European or Proto-Germanic at the time.
As it turns out, the actual date of the specified event is on or before 1500 AD, according to the OED, or "by the fourteenth century" according to the Online Etymology Dictionary. Technically, anything that occurred in 1100 BC happened before 1500 and by the fourteenth century. So, actually, wikipedia was right!