KW #1 solves another question

[Leanne Riding]

That's interesting you should mention the word "dret". I was just
reading Theodore WInthrops' Canoe and Saddle at an ungodly hour. Picture
me reading the vocabulary list:

Ding-ding, hour.
Dlie, dry.
Drait, straight.
Eh-ee, uncle.

...Waitaminit...
Drait?
What's that "r" doing in there? Isn't that usually an "l"?

I chalked it up to inconsistent spelling.
hmmm.....

The url to that particular vocabulary is:
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-
bin/ampage?collId=mymhiwe&fileName=f891w56//mymhiwef891w56.db&recNum=296

On Friday, March 19, 2004, at 09:08 , David Robertson wrote:

> But Le Jeune shows this word as /dret/.