Topic: The word 'quoth'

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William

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What about it?

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What about it?

There comes a point where trivia is trivia.

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jackneve wrote:

Re: The word 'quoth'

What about it?

There comes a point where trivia is trivia.

Trivia: The word ‘quoth’ always comes before the subject; e.g. ‘Quoth the raven’, not ‘The raven quoth’.

"Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?"
― Tennessee Williams

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jackneve wrote:

Re: The word 'quoth'

What about it?

There comes a point where trivia is trivia.

Some people enjoy picking up bits of knowledge here and there and some people do not.

There is a saying "Never grumble away your opportunities".

I have found that learning things is often useful many years later in some situation, as well as there being the satisfaction of learning something.

William

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William, are you saying you are only now learning the word  "quoth"?

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GB wrote:

William, are you saying you are only now learning the word  "quoth"?

No. I had known of the word 'quoth' before.

I did learn things about its origin and use that I did not know before and also that 'cw' was used in Anglo-Saxon for the sound for which we use 'qu' today.

William