[Ads-l] Yet another one new to me

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Thu Mar 19 03:06:45 UTC 2015


On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> Sometimes rendered as "get shed of".  I don't know which was the =
> original.
>

So, in fact, there is no agreement as to whether "shed" or "shut" is the
original?

Youneverknow.


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-Wilson
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