If you want to know any more, have a look here
http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-wil2.htm
Helen
At 17:03 08/11/2005, David Collyer wrote:
Dear Tamara & other interested Friends,
and make the best of the situation, willy nilly...
Now there's a phrase with a history! Did you know that the original
version of "willy nilly" was "Will I? Nill I."?
Came across it just this afternoon in a medieval novel I'm reading.
David in Ballarat
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Helen, Somerset, UK
"Forget the formulae, let's make lace"
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