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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
right ! thanks. there were several of them in fact, but i can't remember the others.
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"uncle" is another one. In Shakespeare's time it was "a nuncle"
I think my all time favourite "word change" has to be the word "butterfly", which was originally "flutterby". Isn't that just a beautifully descriptive word for what a butterfly does?