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Re: groats/grits #77878 08/13/02 10:11 AM
Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803	Won't it make you lose your wits, Writing groats and saying grits? And where did this little piece of flimflammery come from? According to the AHD, they're not even related. (Well, they come from the same PIE root) Grits is from ME gryt, bran, OE grytt. Groats, pronounced with a long o, if you please, from ME grotes, OE grotan. They both trace back to PIE ghreu-, to rub, grind. Harrumph!�

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a rule for every exception	dodyskin	08/07/02 06:32 PM
Re: a rule for every exception	FishonaBike	08/07/02 08:54 PM
Re: a rule for every exception	Buffalo Shrdlu	08/07/02 11:10 PM
what a lot of fun to set to music!	TEd Remington	08/07/02 11:49 PM
Re: what a lot of fun to set to music!	Buffalo Shrdlu	08/08/02 01:37 AM
Re: a rule for every exception	wwh	08/08/02 12:50 PM
Re: a rule for every exception	Faldage	08/08/02 01:03 PM
Re: a rule for every exception	wofahulicodoc	08/11/02 01:44 PM
Re: a rule for every exception	wwh	08/11/02 04:47 PM
source	Buffalo Shrdlu	08/11/02 07:50 PM
Re: a rule for every exception	of troy	08/12/02 08:33 PM
Re: groats/grits	Faldage	08/13/02 10:11 AM
Re: groats/grits	Wordwind	08/13/02 10:42 AM
rhyme and reason	dodyskin	08/22/02 02:30 PM
Re: rhyme and reason	FishonaBike	08/28/02 09:29 PM
Re: rhyme and reason	dodyskin	08/29/02 10:08 AM
Re: rhyme and reason	Jackie	09/03/02 12:36 AM
Re: Ning Nang Nong	AnnaStrophic	09/03/02 12:26 PM
Re: rhyme and reason	dodyskin	09/03/02 02:35 PM
Ning Nong	FishonaBike	09/03/02 03:01 PM

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