Saturday, March 17, 2012

spond

 

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.

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