Mutt

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Baker, John <JBAKER at stradley.com> quoted:
> This word is _probably_ a corruption of mutton or muttonhead

and wrote:

> it ... provides early support for the derivation from "muttonhead."

How does "probably" provide any kind of support?
--
-Wilson
-----
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org