Nik Taylor scripsit:
> > Whatever possessed me to express "reader" and
> > "lawmaker" by the same word??? That needs some reconstruction.
>
> Could be a homophone. Or perhaps some semantic shift. Perhaps the
> "lawmaker" term originally meant something like "advisor (to a king)".
Indeed, in Scots law a solicitor is called a "writer", short for "Writer
to the King's Signet". This confuses only newbies.
> The advisor's job was to read proposed laws and petitions, and
> subsequently give the king his advise. Later political changes caused
> these former advisors to become actual lawmakers.
Very plausible!
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