Re: elementary Sanskrit blunder by Harvard professor

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<4e87e3c7-69fb-49a2-a12e-9a177b59e6d8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
analyst41@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Sep 15, 11:13 am, Harlan Messinger
<hmessinger.removet...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

<snip>

First, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth
are purely Anglo-Saxon and second alone came from French. [...]

Because the place of "twoth" was already taken by "tooth"?

Why didn't "forth" drive out "fourth", then? I think it's safe to say
that English is scarcely averse to homophones.

--
Odysseus
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