schout

This is about schout. \:\/ Perfect word to practise the
sch -sound on and schout sounds like out as in about.

But praetorian and pretend seem to have some connection: ?
At least the falsehood methinks.

Online Etymology- pretend:
c.1380, "to profess or claim," from O.Fr. pretendre "to lay claim," from L. prętendere "stretch in front, put forward, allege," from prę- "before" + tendere "to stretch," from PIE base *ten- "to stretch" (see tend). Main modern sense of "feign, put forward a false claim" is recorded from 1412; the older sense of simply "to claim" is behind the string of royal pretenders (1697) in Eng. history. Meaning "to play, make believe" is recorded from 1865.

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