[Ads-l] Yet another one new to me

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:32 AM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:

> British informal


Or an American misspelling, in this case.

So, the oldest variant has "shut." Good to know. I've idly wondered about
that for decades, since "shed" makes just as much sense. To me, anyway.


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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
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