Re: Natural Order of Events

"Do on" and "do off", at least how I was taught in school.

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 6:32 PM, David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...>wrote:

> On Jan 28, 2009, at 3∞08 PM, Chris Peters wrote:
>
>  There are multiple Japanese verbs that translate to the English "to wear",
>> depending on how you put on the particular item of clothing.  On the head
>> like a hat; around the body like a coat; pull up like pants, etc.
>>
>
> One of my favorite lost English pairs is the following:
>
> 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").
>
>
> -David
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> "sunly eleSkarez ygralleryf ydZZixelje je ox2mejze."
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>
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