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Did you look up aftermath?

I had never wondered!! Betsy, tell your son I've played with words since I
was little, and I had never thought of that one.

I looked. It's an Old English word I can't type with this keyboard (and
don't know how to indicate well) but it's moeth, meaning mowing/harvest.
After the mowing.

Aftermath kind of means, then "what will there be after all this other stuff
is cut down?" or considering that crops might go really well or really badly
or get eaten up by bugs late in the season, maybe it's about not knowing the
outcome until after the harvest.

COOL!

Tell him to look at "trailer." I liked discovering that one in my head when
I was little. If he already thought about trailer before, maybe he'd be
interested in wise, wisdom, wit, witness.

Holly liked the tw- words from Anglo Saxon/Old English. The reason "two" the
number is spelled with the w is because it's of the group of twice, twins,
twine, twilight...

Sandra

Fetteroll

on 4/16/02 2:35 PM, SandraDodd@... at SandraDodd@... wrote:

> The reason "two" the
> number is spelled with the w is because it's of the group of twice, twins,
> twine, twilight...

So was the "w" once pronounced as in the others?

Joyce