| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 21, 1998, 0:10 |
Raymond A. Brown wrote:> 'Twas so in Chaucer and the middle English of southern England. The modern > form is one of the Scandinavianisms of northern English.Ah! I wondered whether 'twas so. -- "It's bad manners to talk about ropes in the house of a man whose father was hanged." - Irish proverb http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files ICQ: 18656696 AOL: NikTailor