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mnemonics for /dual flags
From:
Tom Christiansen
Date:
June 10, 2011 10:45
Subject:
mnemonics for /dual flags
Message ID:
23409.1307727931@chthon
This falls in the category of noise or trivia, but I found it interesting.
Did you know that the /dual regex flags have not just two but four
possible spellings for real words? The fourth was wholly unknown to me.
1. dual /ˈdjuːəl/
MEANING: two-fold, double
ETYMOLOGY: < Latin duāl-is containing two, < du-o two
URL: http://www.oed.com:80/Entry/58110
2. laud /lɔːd/
MEANING: praise, high commendation
ETYMOLOGY: < Old French laude, < Latin laud-em, laus praise.
URL: http://www.oed.com:80/Entry/106223
3. auld /ɔːld/ Sc. /ɑːld/
MEANING: = old adj.; as in auld lang-syne, ‘old long-since,’ old long-ago
(used subst.); Auld Reekie, ‘Old Smoky,’ a sobriquet of Edinburgh;
auldfarrand, ‘favouring,’ i.e. resembling the old or adult, having
the manners or sagacity of age; auld-warld, old-world.
ETYMOLOGY: mod. Scots and north English descendant of
Old English ald, which became in midl. dialect in
13th cent. old n.²
URL: http://www.oed.com:80/Entry/13130
4. udal /ˈjuːdəl/
MEANING: udal land n. (also udal lands) land(s) in Orkney or Shetland
held by the old native form of freehold tenure; also, Land
held in absolute ownership without service or acknowledgement
of any superior.
ETYMOLOGY: Orkney and Shetland form of Norwegian odal, odel, Old Norse
óðal property held by inheritance (Norwegian odal n., Swedish odal,
Danish odel now adj. and in comb.) = Old High German uodal, also uodil,
Old Saxon óđil, Old English œ́ðel, éðel, < root að, ôð, whence also Old
High German adal, German adel noble descent, Old High German ędili,
German edel, Old English æðele, eðele noble.
URL: http://www.oed.com:80/Entry/208526
--tom
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mnemonics for /dual flags
by Tom Christiansen