Re: Rs
| From: | Adam Walker <carrajena@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, April 5, 2003, 3:22 |
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Oops. My bad.
ADam
John Cowan <cowan@...> wrote:Adam Walker scripsit:
> "Undons" should be "doffs". Doff and don are contractions of older
> forms "don on" and "don off". Weirdness abounds.
"Do on" and "do off", rather.
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John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all. There
are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language
that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful.
--_The Hobbit_
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