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From: alderson@netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III)
Subject: Re: Old English "aunts".
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In article <misraelDA2tqJ.DFM@netcom.com> misrael@scripps.edu (Mark Israel)
writes:

>The professional linguists in sci.lang had 10 days to answer your question,
>and didn't.  I will refrain from opining on the significance of that. :-)

As well you might:  Your followup was the first I, at least, saw of this...
-- 
Rich Alderson   You know the sort of thing that you can find in any dictionary
                of a strange language, and which so excites the amateur philo-
                logists, itching to derive one tongue from another that they
                know better: a word that is nearly the same in form and meaning
                as the corresponding word in English, or Latin, or Hebrew, or
                what not.
                                                --J. R. R. Tolkien,
alderson@netcom.com                               _The Notion Club Papers_
