USAGE: "thole" vs. "dree"

I found out today that Scots has two verbs corresponding to English "endure,
put up with":

        thole: to put up with something because one has no choice
        dree: to put up with something as a choice

Vocabularists may be interested in this contrast.  I found it at
http://www.fleimin.demon.co.uk/Bletherskite/Shudder_At_The_Niffer.htm
a page of Scots prescriptivism written in Scots.

The phrase "dree one's weird", therefore, means not merely to endure one's
fate, but to *choose* to endure one's fate.

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Only do what only you can do.           John Cowan <jcowan@...>
  --Edsger W. Dijkstra,                 http://www.reutershealth.com
    deceased 6 August 2002              http://www.ccil.org/~cowan

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