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alfreda89 ([personal profile] alfreda89) wrote2007-04-17 05:39 pm
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So, how's your English?

I've seen portions of this list, but never this much, and have no idea who wrote it. It's posted at this site:

http://bertc.com/english.htm

I was pleased to find out I got almost all of them (and finally learned how to pronounce those Muses -- we'll see if it sticks) but Islington I've never been positive of, and what is this?

Foeffer

As in close to the buddy of the Grey Mouser? Feffer?

Bev, fun for your kids (but not at first!)

Oh, what a bad pun!

[identity profile] alfreda89.livejournal.com 2007-04-18 06:58 am (UTC)(link)
I'll bet you're right, I was right about the way to pronounce it, but I hadn't stumbled across it as a variant for fief:

from French feoffer or fiefer, from French fief.

God, I love words. Maybe this is why I don't have a gift for foreign languages. I love this one so much...