Word: ohman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WILLIAM OHMAN Staten Island...
...TIME'S Feb. 8 article, "A Farmer's Fun": I [do not] claim to have positive proof that Olof Ohman carved the Kensington Stone. The statement given to a reporter by me contained an express disclaimer of my ability or intent to specify the perpetrators of this modern hoax. The requirements of science and the declared purpose and spirit of my investigation were satisfied by a demonstration that the Kensington inscription can be completely explained as a modern fabrication...
...would not have kept Ohman from making just the mistakes...
...word for ship, for instance, generally had the ending "um" in the 14th century. The encyclopedia said that this ending was dropped in late runic times, but it did not say how late. So Ohman dropped it, though it really persisted for about 200 years after 1362. The encyclopedia also said that the letter "h" was used in late runic writing. Again, it did not say how late. So Ohman used "h" 200 years "too soon...
...scrapbook. One erudite article in it, for instance, ends with the Sanskrit expression "AUM," an esoteric syllable meaning "power." Toward the end of the Kensington inscription is the word "AVM," which has long baffled scholars. Some thought it meant "Ave Maria." Wahlgren is sure that crafty old Farmer Ohman intended it as a learned pun, his way of having fun with the experts...