Rearrange the following five sentences/group of sentences (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph; then answer the questions given below them.

(A) In 1838, the Grimm brothers began to compile terms for the German dictionary published in 1854.

(B) It's impossible to clearly date the first mention of a dog ear as it refers to a bent page in the history of literature.

(C) The term is the German equivalent of the dog ear, as "a mark in a reading book made by bending a corner of the page."

(D) A dog ear is a colloquial term for the folded-down corner of a book page — the way some of us, when we don't have a bookmark at hand might keep our place.

(E) They included a mention of the "Eselsohr" or "donkey's ear".