Re: "Wife"
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 29, 2003, 0:42 |
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Stone Gordonssen wrote:
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> >No, no, as in "sire" and "dam".
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> I really wonder how many Americans would know this phraseology
I do, but only thru encountering the term in a few novels.
Actually, come to think about it, I think the first time I encountered
those terms might well have been in the etymology of the cognates "sir"
and "madam".
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