La pathole d'aniet – Jèrriais word of today
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La pathole d'aniet – Jèrriais word of today: Assez pouor înfecter les sept
corps dé garde - enough to stink out the 7 guardhouses (i.e. stinks to high
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Sort of phallic, too.
"By lightening"
We spell it lightning where I come from...
Usually that is so, but historically not always, e.g.:
in Transactions Amererican Philosophy Society (1793): "After a lightening rod has been erected."
Etymology: Special use of lightening - now differentiated in spelling.
Ah yes, the 18th century before our modern educational system was established.
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