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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From:
"Peter Snepvangers" <<a href="mailto:snepvangers@optushome.com.au">snepvangers@optushome.com.au</a>></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject:
Etymology</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Hello Lowlanders,</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">I was recently asked about
the origin and widespread usage of the words chuse and chuses (choose and
chooses).</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">A few online dictionaries
refer to the words as archaic or obsolete English.</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">The Lowlands
archives show reference to the words used in Scots as follows:</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">R.Hahn...<span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);">I wonder how to label the language variety. It seems to
be 17th century English but also has a lot of Scots in it. "17th century
Scottish English"? Or is it "cleaned up" Scots?</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><strong> </strong></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><strong>"Lady Anne
Bothwell's Lament",</strong></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Balow, my babe, ly stil and
sleipe!</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);">I cannae
chuse, but ever will</span><br>
<span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);">Be luving to thy father stil:</span><br>
<span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);">Whaireir he <span style="background-attachment: scroll;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 204);">gae</span></span>, whaireir he ryde,</span><br>
<span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);">My luve with him <span style="background-attachment: scroll;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 204);">maun</span></span> stil abyde:</span><br>
<span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);">In <span style="background-attachment: scroll;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 204);">weil</span></span> or <span style="background-attachment: scroll;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 204);">wae</span></span>, whaireir he <span style="background-attachment: scroll;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 204);">gae</span></span>,</span><br>
<span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);">Mine hart can neir depart him <span style="background-attachment: scroll;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 204);">frae</span></span>.</span><br>
<span style="color: white; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll;"> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 204);"><span style="background-attachment: scroll;">Balow</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);">, . . .</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);">There is also
a reference to:</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black;">"The
Bonny Lass o Anglesey": by Burns</span></b></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">Fifteen ploughs
but and a mill,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">I'll gie thee
till the day thou die;</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">And the fairest
knight in a' my court,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">To chuse thy
husband for to be.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">There are also
examples in the US
constitution, </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">and examples such
as Lady Susan by Jane Austen,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">I should not
chuse to have the business brought on here, and canvassed by the wise heads of
Mr.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">as well as Sense
and Sensibility by Jane Austen</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Dashwood, who did not chuse
to dine with them oftener than they dined at the cottage, absolutely refused on
her own account; her daughters might do as they pleased.</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Samuel Taylor Coleridge in
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, He cannot chuse but hear.</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">John Milton in Paradise
Lost, on hospitable thoughts intent What choice to <a name="12d443e7f17bacde_h"></a><b>chuse</b>
for delicacie best,</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">My understanding
is that choice came into middle English from old French. Choose is from chosen
from old English ceosan but I cannot find any reference to how chuse came
about. There are a lot more references to the usage but etymology. </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">Your guidance
here would be appreciated.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">Best regards</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">Peter
Snepvangers</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">Sydney Australia</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><a href="mailto:snepvangers@optushome.com.au" target="_blank">snepvangers@optushome.com.au</a></span></p>
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