Scarogoth
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Re: Re: Re: EN World Player's Journal is in the mail!
For anybody that's really interested, this is an example of "aphesis" -- "the gradual and unintentional loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word; as in 'squire' for 'esquire' or "down" for "adown" (the original opposite of up!). It is a special form of the phonetic process called "Aphaeresis", for which, from its frequency in the history of the English language, a distinctive name is useful."
I love it here. One can learn so much...
I still haven't seen the sodding journal though -- very glad to hear it "feels right". Can't wait. I hope I'm going to be sent a copy, actually? Can't remember giving anybody my address at any stage... Hmmm.
It is basically the word "abated" in the sense of "reduced".RangerWickett said:To clarify, it is "bated" breath. And no, I don't really know what "bated" means. I just know that it has something to do with breath.
For anybody that's really interested, this is an example of "aphesis" -- "the gradual and unintentional loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word; as in 'squire' for 'esquire' or "down" for "adown" (the original opposite of up!). It is a special form of the phonetic process called "Aphaeresis", for which, from its frequency in the history of the English language, a distinctive name is useful."
I love it here. One can learn so much...
I still haven't seen the sodding journal though -- very glad to hear it "feels right". Can't wait. I hope I'm going to be sent a copy, actually? Can't remember giving anybody my address at any stage... Hmmm.
