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Originally Posted by tdvance
..... (wait, if cedere is "to give", doesn't that mean "precede" means "forgive"?)
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haa! funny vance!
yah...and so
mouse : plural...mice!
house : plural....hice?!
though some people do pronounce it 'hice'..apparently Queen's english
there's a book i had, lost it a couple of years ago, by Willard Espy, called Another Word Almanac. i never have come across the first volume as yet.
have to scour second-hand booksellers, for both books.
Mr Espy put together a riotously funny compilation of pure delight.
any other BAUTer read(s) it!....i am soooo jealous.