Misc. blogging
Aug. 19th, 2007 10:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
highlyeccentricMany modern english words have Anglo-Saxon roots, or survived wholesale down the years. The word word, for example.
It's rather less common for a whole idiom to survive. I just found this in BT's dictionary:
scot-freó; adj. Scot-free, exempt from imposts
now, since sc makes sh noises in Anglo-Saxon, I wonder if that does actually mean "as free as a denizen of scotland", or if it is dervived from scot, meaning "shot", or scotian, meaning to shoot (something) or to shoot (move rapidly).
Via The Cranky Proffessor: 13th C. crucifix found in Austrian rubbish skip
go look at it... it's so purdy....
alright, i've broken my Internet Free Sunday vow... logging off right now...