[Magdalen] Like I Was Puzzled.
    James Oppenheimer-Crawford 
    oppenheimerjw at gmail.com
       
    Sun Dec 21 19:21:41 UTC 2014
    
    
  
Apparently the verb is much older than dirt. From our perspective, both
forms are older than understandable English.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/husband
James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
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On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 12:23 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wasn't husband originally a verb that got itself nouned?
> -M
>
> On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Roger Stokes <
> roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> > The Oxford English Dictionary records "father" being used as a verb in
> > 1483 in the sense of begetting (procreation) and 1548 as the originator
> of
> > something else.
> >
>
    
    
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