Re: Scots.
| From: | Rebecca Bettencourt <beckiergb@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, July 19, 2008, 0:46 |
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On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Paul Bennett <paul.w.bennett@...> wrote:
>> Is it the mostly-archaic English word 'sore', meaning 'very' (cogn.
>> Ger. 'sehr', i.a.)?
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> I wouldn't say it's mostly archaic. The word is of course common in
> the sense of "painful", but even the "very" meaning is alive and well
> in many rural areas in the US. ("I'm sore tempted to hit you upside
> your head right now")
"so sorely needed" is quite a common phrase, even outside rural areas.
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