History Forum / General / British History / March 2008

Many 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th century forms of English have endured in the
United States, particularly in the traditional American South.

_CATCHED_ was quite common in the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th  centuries.  In
Britain as well I suspect.

_CRUNK_ is a Good English Word...

It's both a noun and a verb.

_CRUNKED UP_ is another issue...

Confused with _CRUMPLED UP_?...

A conflation of _CRUNCHED_ and _CRUMPLED_?  <g>

DSH

Lux et Veritas et Libertas

Vires et Honor

Yes, Hogg has been quite rockheaded on this one...

Slow Learner...

Didn't even know how to look up a word in the OED.

Young fellow...

So he looked up BUY rather than BOUGHTEN...as he's explained embarrassedly,
several times.

Alphabetically & Conceptually Challenged.

He didn't even realize BOUGHTEN is a participial ADJECTIVE...

Thought it was a VERB.

He also has this curious idea that a word has to be found in the OED to be
"certified".

He finally saw his pratfall on that one and seems to have sorrowfully
admitted that the OED would need to make more space for WETTEN, WETTENING
and WETTENED.

Robert Frost = Great Poet...

Certainly Literate.

Knew BOUGHTEN.

DSH

Lux et Veritas et Libertas