Re: Dust-sucker [Was: Re: Armenian, Sumerian, Burushaski, and Turkic languages]

From: "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:19:21 -0700

On Jun 25, 3:34 pm, "Richard Wordingham" <jrw0...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Suck" has been a four-letter word since as far back as English has
been recorded.

Indeed?

Onions gives its principle parts in Old English as sūcan, *sēac,
sucon, -socen, which rather suggests that it is the four-letter forms that
are missing!

I'll worry about 1300-year-old spellings when you learn the difference
between principle and principal.

I looked in OED but the print was too small to get the details and the
magnifier is too cumbersome to use.

.

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