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From: aauerbac@mach1.wlu.ca (alan auerbach F)
Subject: Re: Tendency of Inflections to Disappear - Why?
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I agree about Shakespeare's playing with the "c" word but not the "f" one.
The most explicit example is in Twelfth Night, with Malvolio's trying to
attribute a letter or note he found to a certain female, observing,
	"That's her C, that's her U, 'N [and] that's her T --
	and thus doth she make her great P."
(From my usually faulty memory.)

--
Al.
