I no longer know. I will never know. The words remain. I will make use of them as I will. Walter Ong has taught us that print cultures lead to a different experience of the world.
Air becomes letters on a page.
Sounds that once when uttered were gone, lost air out into the air, are now recorded in print or electronically. Words on a page do not need to be repeated. We have them. The sound is divorced from the sounder and the soundee. In oral cultures, the sound to be remembered had to be set into jingles, cliches, proverbs, formula-like sayings to give some stability to the universe.