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Originally Posted By: Jackiezmjezhd: [blowing kiss e] :-)
Welcome, LST. If you think about it, fiery is more phonetically accurate than firey. Phonetically, I guess fire should be fier, and ire should be ier, etc. Weird. Yes, that was intentional.
And WEIRD comes to us from WYRD (meaning "fate"), referring to the "weird sisters", the Fates. And
Shakespeard employed them as the 'three witches". And the adjective grew out of Shakespeares' interpretation.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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