rift

[Jonathan Lighter]

Wow, Joan!  That beats "ralph" by more than 600 years!

  BTW, I've had students who, perhaps predictably, pronounced "ralph," v., as  / r au f /.

  JL

"Joan H. Hall" <jdhall at WISC.EDU> wrote:
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DARE's entry for "rift" (which has an Ohio,West Virginia, and two North
Carolina examples as well as six from Pennsylvania) refers to OED2,
which gives the date a1340 and the comment, "Now Sc. and north. dial."

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