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Rh So schoolboys talk of bagging their mates' goods. We now find the first mention of ‘ready money:’

A well-known religious phrase is found in the following lines:

We have seen that hál or hol came to mean integer before 1100; we now find our well-known adverb com&shy;pounded from it. Something had to be invented to replace the lost eallunga. ‘Ta confessiun deit estre entere’ is tranlatedtranslated [sic]

The old leosan (amittere) had had loren for its Past Participle and þu lure for the second Person Singular of the Perfect; we now light on a wonderful change:

We still keep the true Old English Gerundial form in the phrase, ‘this house to let.’ It was corrupted in Lincoln&shy;shire by the year 1303, and Tyndale unhappily followed this corruption in his account of St. Paul's rebuke to St. Peter. Robert of Brunne says —

The verb have was now gaining its sense of ‘to drag:’