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# I dont have a scanner
(, Fri 10 Apr 2009, 20:01, archived)
# I have talent
(, Fri 10 Apr 2009, 20:02, archived)
# a high denomination persian (phonecian?) silver coin?
(, Fri 10 Apr 2009, 20:03, archived)
# DID YOU KNOW
that the word newt was originally ewt and the word adder was actually nadder but people got confused by mishearing "an ewt" and "a nadder" and they both changed over.
(, Fri 10 Apr 2009, 20:06, archived)
# i'd heard this, is it true?
(, Fri 10 Apr 2009, 20:11, archived)
# If it was the same people mishearing both words then they were just being willfully awkward
probably proto-b3tans.
Reference for næddre is easy enough to find. Newt is supposed to have begun as efeta, still apparently dialect somewhere (where?), and then gone efeta eveta eueta euta ewt. Baby newts are apparently still called efts (by who?) ... can't find references.
(, Fri 10 Apr 2009, 20:14, archived)
# oh come on!
I'd belive he had no scanner...
(, Fri 10 Apr 2009, 20:03, archived)