[PW] Anachronisms

[Donna Halper]

At 02:48 PM 1/14/2008, you wrote:

>As for "no clue", I appreciate Sue's literary references, but they all
>occur in the context where one would hope to find a "clue" in the
>traditional sense of "a piece of information that sheds light on a
>mystery".  Obviously there have been cases for centuries where
>investigators have been able to find "no clue".

Interestingly, I find that the spelling used by certain newspapers of 
the late 1800s and early 1900s was "clew".  And of course the OED 
says the expression "not to have a clue"  goes back to the 1870s.