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Oh, heavens! I hadn't even read carefully enough my own post!
Yes, the older I get the more I notice words that creep in to sentences while I wasn't looking. All those highs and lows and middles and olds make for dense reading.
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Dear jheem: during my morning walk, I remembered the almost obsolete word "thill", the two shafts which are on each side of a horse pulling for instance a trotting horse sulky.
I wonder if it is a distant cousing of 'thole'.
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> Not all words in th- are necessarily from (Old) Norse. English tends to have th where German has d
True, yes. But my understanding is that at least part of this process (of change from d to th) was driven by the collision of ON influenced language north of the Danelaw with the Germanic tribal languages to the south. Is that about right?
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