Re: Natural Order of Events

> 2009/1/28 David J. Peterson :
> > to don/to doff
> >
> > Meaning "to put on (a hat)" and "to remove (a hat)".  They're
> > so wonderfully specific, and oddly look as if they're morphologically
> > related (what's the etymology?  It looks like "d" + "on" and "d" + "off").
According to the online etymology dictionary (http://etymonline.com/), it's do + off and
do + on, Johnson's 1755 had declared them obsolete, but Sir Walter Scott
revitalized them. (http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=doff)

-- Paul