Re: Scots.
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, July 18, 2008, 17:54 |
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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.)?
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")
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
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