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From: lilandbr@scn.org (Leland Bryant Ross)
Subject: Re: "gh"
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Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 03:34:03 GMT
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>Alwyn Thomas [sic] wrote:
>> I don't know, I'm sure. Perhaps it was some printer, from Antwerp,
>> perhaps, steeped in the *heilige gheest*, who thought that if "Holy
>> Ghost" did not derive from the Dutch, then it ought to.
>
>It is of course possible that both are derived from the Old English
>*haliga gast*, given the English missionary activity among their
>continental cousins.
>
>Alwyn

Yeah BUT...  at issue is the provenance and peregrinations of the 
orthographical oddity, not of the *term* or the *theological concept* it 
sought (hopelessly, of course, the HG being the way It is) to encapsulate.

Leland
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