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From: lilandbr@scn.org (Leland Bryant Ross)
Subject: Re: dare/durst, darf/drfen
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Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 03:58:41 GMT
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In a previous article, deb5@midway.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff) says:

>Martin Keegan  <martin@cam.sri.com> wrote:
>>Elizabethan English had 'durst' as the past tense of 'dare';
>>is 'dare/durst' cognate with the German 'darf/drfen'?
>
>Nope.  

How about "dassn't", which my mother used frequently?
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