On 06/11/2012 12:50, geraldthehamster wrote:
On 5 Nov, 16:47, djc wrote:

Unfortunately all modern dictionaries take the wimpy way and just record
usage, rather than attempt to define a correct meaning. Which might be
reasonable if they confined citation to the careful and literate, but
they feel the need to be democratic and give weight to the babbling of
the ignorant. And thus our language slowly turns to mush.

Þéos is mín woruld – ðá heofenas, séo sunne, þá tréow, þá æceras, þá
godu, þá ylfe ond mín twá stranga handa

Beoð wel, fríend

Richard

Your name is Aelfsige, AICMFP.

As for what Grimly said... Qué?

Andy