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From: "Rockne H. Johnson" <>
Subject: Re: [DK] Re: [OEL] Lieutenant, Leftenant
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 05:37:52 -1000
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But in your wildest dreams would you have thought that spelling with an 'f'
would be found as early as the year 1375?

I see a connection to Danish spellings. If you work your way back to the
churchbooks of the 1600s, you will find "navn" spelled "nafn", "Søren"
spelled "Søfren" (or was it Sofren?), Povel (now Poul) spelled with an 'f'
in it somewhere, etc.

Rock

At 08:59 PM 11/6/00 +1300, you wrote:
>But the accepted modern spelling is Lieutenant.
>
>Ian Westergaard
>In Cloudy & Warm Central Otago
>New Zealand
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Rockne H. Johnson" <>
>To: <>
>Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 8:01 PM
>Subject: [DK] Re: [OEL] Lieutenant, Leftenant
>
>
>> >From: "Judith K Werner" <>
>> >To: "Rockne H. Johnson" <>,
>> > <>
>> >Subject: Re: [OEL] Lieutenant, Leftenant
>> >Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 21:16:03 -0800
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>> >: I know from the World War 2 movies that the British pronuciation of
>> >: lieutenant is leftenant but has it ever been spelled that way?
>> >
>> >
>> >In a word, yes. Some examples from OED --
>> >
>> >1375 Barbour, Bruce [MS. 1489] xiv. 139
>> >Schir Richard of Clare, That..luf-tenand Was off the king of Yngland.
>> >

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