Re: Gaol and all
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, December 12, 1999, 6:03 |
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abrigon wrote:
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> I thought Gaol and like was an old name for Jail. Could be the Theatre
> and Gaol comes from the same root or likely cause of a possible place
> Theatres used to be held at or ...
Gaol is just another spelling of "jail", coming from a period before the
invention of the letter "j". Theatre is the British spelling of
American Theater, the common -er/-re alternation.
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