Sweat
- call_copse
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Re: Sweat
There is "threat".I can't think of another word in English ending in -eat that is pronounced -et.
"Repeat" comes indirectly from the Latin petere. See the explanation here:Incidentally, if the re- in repeat means again, surely peat is a word? Not as in peat bogs; that's different of course. But peat as in do or say something. Is there a history here?
https://www.etymonline.com/word/repeat
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- Grand Panjandrum
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Re: Sweat
Most interesting. Thanks Audiendus.
So it looks like peat is fair. I will peat this to my friends - the pedantic semanticists will be amused
So it looks like peat is fair. I will peat this to my friends - the pedantic semanticists will be amused
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