[Dragaera] *slaps head about Tukko* *AGYAR SPOILERS*
Ken Koester
kkoester at email.ers.usda.gov
Wed Oct 15 11:10:15 PDT 2008
Jerry Friedman wrote:
>"I wot" is a very clever suggestion for "Aye, what".
>However, of the 15 hits at the searchable Shakespeare
>at <http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~matty/Shakespeare/test.html>,
>none are from /Hamlet/, and none are preceded or followed
>by anything resembling "he knows". (Nine are preceded by
>"well" and one is followed by it.) So if this is a
>Shakespeare allusion, either I'm missing something or I'd
>say it's a long stretch.
>
>
*Shrugs* Then maybe it's Marlowe, or Johnson, or Fletcher, or. . . .
The Elizabethans were nothing if not prolific. If not a stretch,
though, I'd say it's obscure.
Snarkhunter
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