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John Cartmell
 
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Default MDF window sills

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Lawrence Zarb wrote:
Just for everybodies reference

The "sill" or window boards will be on the inside not outside..


Just for everybodies (sic) reference, it's cill. LOL


Sill comes from Old English syll, which in turn derives from the
proto-Germanic/Indo-European words suljo/swel meaning beam. You find it as
sulle, sille, svill, &c in various early Germanic languages. Never as cill -
except that the OED allows cill as an occasionally used variant of sill.
Occasionally by people who spell it wrong? ;-)

For everybody's reference. It's sill (or cill - but preferably sill). And it
doesn't mean inside or outside - but either.

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