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Re: English oddities

From:Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 11, 2000, 7:23
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, John Cowan wrote:

> Mangiat wrote: > > > I was wondering in the last days where the word 'TIME' is from. > > It's a borrowing from Old Norse. There are many such words that have > been borrowed and then semantically differentiated from their native > counterparts: time and tide, skirt and shirt, etc.
Ooh, let me guess. "shirt" from old English (that sc thing, which I *adore* incidently as more aesthetically appealing than sh), and skirt from either Old Norse or German. Is "tide" old English? I can't remember the word for "time" in OE (been a while since I had to read any of it, you know, and it's amazing how quickly you forget a dead language, especially one you never learned very well to begin with). Living your life is a task so difficult, it has never been attempted before.