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FARANDMAN Stranger or traveller, travelling merchant This one's new to me.
Sounds like it's connected to OE faran, to go on a journey, cognate with German fahren, to go.
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>INFEFTMENT A man was infeft when put into possession of heritable property tsuwm, did you know this one?
in one of my "potential wwftd" files I have enfeofment/infeofment; thus, enfeoff/infeoff. these forms all turn up via OneLook, but not infeft or infeftment; I trust that OED would resolve the spelling issue(s).
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enfeoff/infeoff Hmm--you reckon these might have developed from, say, to be "in fief"(dom)? Related in some way, I mean?
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Ooh, ooh--does that mean we can call you Etty??
Sure, dlu so at your own risk.
TEd
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welcome back, TEd.
formerly known as etaoin...
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Indeed. I have missed you, my good and faithful...friend. It took me a second, on your ref. , and I L'dIU just to be sure: Bobyoungbalt (stranger ) Wed Nov 29 12:15:18 2000 205.188.197.31 Re: Etaoin shrdlu
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It's the frequency distribution of the letters in English words. See Sherlock Holmes in "The Dancing Men". It may be noted that there are other lists with different arrangements. http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=wordplay&Number=9339
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