On 18 August 2010 16:23, Grant Sewell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:16:57 +0100 > Liam Proven wrote: > >> > Edgy Eft. Edgy, damned right it was. WTF is an Eft? >> >> A small newt. I thought everyone knew that. >> >> By the way, "an eft" became "an ewt" during one of English's many >> upheavals, then "an ewt" became a "a newt", in a reversal of the way >> that "a nadder" became "an adder" and "a napron" became "an apron". > > My favourite is "a norange" -> "an orange". :)
Oooh yes. From /naranja/ - orange in Spanish. I was trying to remember that, but got it muddled up with al Abriqoc - an Arabic word that mutated into "apricot". -- Liam Proven • Info & profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/lproven Email: [email protected] • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: [email protected] Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AIM/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • MSN: [email protected] • ICQ: 73187508 -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
