You think I'm kidding don't you--sticking that d in there with the offending w.
dictionary.com told me to put it in. No actually, it told me that the derivation is from a middle English word andswerin and had someting to do with swearing--I kid you not.
And I will go quietly away, having left more comment that the entire lenght of your delightful post and still no postcard.
When I teach French to kids and they ask me why the French spell their words the way they do, I always tell them that English is the weird language, not French! lol
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Sorry, no postcard, Liz. But a Google search yields this answer from WikiAnswers.com : because it is just spelt like that.
Just to let anyone know who doesn't a wiki can be edited by jsut about anybody, so an anser from a wiki-anything is a shot in the dark.
OOOOOOOOh! That was hard. That was fingernails on the chalkboard (we still had them when I retired last year) to leave it spelled that way.
I found an andswer.
You think I'm kidding don't you--sticking that d in there with the offending w.
dictionary.com told me to put it in. No actually, it told me that the derivation is from a middle English word andswerin and had someting to do with swearing--I kid you not.
And I will go quietly away, having left more comment that the entire lenght of your delightful post and still no postcard.
Thank you, katney - and for your postcard. It's lovely. I will treat it as international Love Your Pet week whether it is or not.
Found this on WikiAnswers.com.....
The word answer derives from the Indo-European root *swer- to swear, plus the prefix and- ( anti), meaning back, or in return.
Since january 20th, Obama is Presnit, and there's no 'W' in anything any more :-)
hich makes a problem for those ho ant to ask hat, and hy, and hen, and here, and ho und ho?
ANd there was me thinking it was put in to make to add to the purgatory that was learning to spell!
Good question.
Are you starting a revolution? Trying to make English spelling as sensible as Welsh?
I'm glad the others answered you because I didn't have a clue.
So, now explain Arkansas.
Why stop with one word, Liz? The whole English language is a paradox...spelling wise, that is.
When I teach French to kids and they ask me why the French spell their words the way they do, I always tell them that English is the weird language, not French! lol
@Leslie,
And when Sarah Palin was running the town of Wasilla, she spelled her job-title with a D in it ? ;-)
That's weird, isn't it, Anne? What if we don't want to swear back at someone?!
I'm sure it on't stop you asking, stu.
I've never even thought about it before, jams.
It certainly prompted a lot of comments, ellee.
Yes, dragonstar. Which vowel shall we drop first?
That's easy, jay. Just say it as it's spelled: R - can- sass. That's right, isn't it?!
Indeed, puss. It just happened that I was writing it and I mistyped it leaving out the w.
Try explaining Welsh to them, leslie!
For that matter, why is there an H in wy?
The Welsh - they have w's y's etc. all over the darn place... :-)
Because I live with a load of dyslexics, there is never a 'w' in answers!
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