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From: "Wendy King" <>
Subject: Re: Fw: [YKS] Life in the 1500s
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 15:06:12 +0000


can't resist joining in this debate

pottage/potage/porridge used to be interchangeable - depended on where you
were from - meaning something(s) boiled in water on the stove

the bowl you served it it was a porringer

other words the Americans use that come back to old(er) english

fall - dialect word for autumn (leaf fall) 17th/18th century Lancashire
particularly

pavement for road - dates back to Roman times, archaeologists still refer to
roman roads as pavements

the 'ize' ending on many words - this was and still is the 'correct' english
'ise' has come into use through custom and practice

can you not tell that I once worked for an academic who had majored in
english language?

Wendy

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