John McKown wrote:
"throshen"? as in: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/mec/med-idx?type=id&id=MED45467 That's a word I've never run across before. Not many use middle English.
You cite "thresh", but this is "thrash"
Middle English Old English Pres. Past P.P. Pres. Pret.s. Pret. pl. P.p. thrash throsh* throshen* ðersce ðearsc ðurscon ðorscen -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
