Thyme Of The Day

[Matthew Gordon]

HyperGrecoism? Both <th> and <y> are common in Greek borrowings.

On 3/6/08 9:38 AM, "Arnold M. Zwicky" <zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU> wrote:
> "thyme" for "theme" is a pretty bizarre misspelling.  no obvious
> source for the Y in the context.
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> arnold
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