Re: Concocted early 16th Century English
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 13, 2003, 15:33 |
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At 18:40 12.11.2003, Roger Mills wrote:
>"Needs" is certainly obsolete, a deliberate archaism, in 20th C. speech and
>writing. In the 19th C. it may have been merely "literary"--
William Morris used "needs" liberally
in his romances, which seems to indicate
that it was pretty archaic already by then.
Of course WM would avoid "perforce" in most
contexts, it not being 'northern' enough.
/BP 8^)
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