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1. noun The game of nine-holes. from The Century Dictionary.
2. noun In whist, a manner of playing 'either in utter ignorance of all its
known princi...
6 months ago
Mrs has found – playing Word with Friends I can only assume – that you can respond, but you cannot spond . . . that is, etymologically: spond could have come to English from Latin spondere thru the Old French, as did respondere, but it did not.
It is a good thing, I think, for it would enable a false declension . . . spanned, spend, spinned, spond, spund, spynd?
We just think its funny.