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Jcowan: Easter egg

2005-07-27T13:19:14Z

Easter egg

Jcowan: "Sherd" came before "shard"

2005-06-20T18:13:13Z

"Sherd" came before "shard"

Dfaran L'Eniarc: Well, I'll be. So it is.

2005-06-19T04:45:16Z

Well, I'll be. So it is.

Morbus Iff: Nope, he meant potsherds.

2005-06-19T01:18:14Z

Nope, he meant potsherds.

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Nope - he meant "potsherds". See http://www.answers.com/potsherds. --[[User:Morbus Iff|Morbus Iff]] 21:18, 18 Jun 2005 (EDT)

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	::In fact it's the other way around: "sherd" is the older form, though less popular today; it's related to "shear". See [http://www.bartleby.com/61/roots/IE467.html] for full details. English underwent a partial sound-change that changed "er" to "ar" in the 17th century; this affected the name of the letter R and the words "varsity" (from "university"), "parson" (which used to be just a different meaning of "person"), "sergeant" (which kept its spelling with "er"), and "shard" among others. However, in the great majority of words with "er" the sound-change reversed itself; we no longer say or write "marcy" for "mercy", for example. --[[User:Jcowan\|John Cowan]] 14:13, 20 Jun 2005 (EDT)		::In fact it's the other way around: "sherd" is the older form, though less popular today; it's related to "shear". See [http://www.bartleby.com/61/roots/IE467.html] for full details. English underwent a partial sound-change that changed "er" to "ar" in the 17th century; this affected the name of the letter R and the words "varsity" (from "university"), "parson" (which used to be just a different meaning of "person"), "sergeant" (which kept its spelling with "er"), and "shard" among others. However, in the great majority of words with "er" the sound-change reversed itself; we no longer say or write "marcy" for "mercy", for example. --[[User:Jcowan\|John Cowan]] 14:13, 20 Jun 2005 (EDT)
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		+	== Easter egg ==
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		+	This entry is an olla-podrida of bits from H.P. Lovecraft's weird tale "The Call of Cthulhu", other entries mentioning the Exingians, and things intended to sound suitably terrifying. --[[User:Jcowan\|John Cowan]] 09:19, 27 Jul 2005 (EDT)

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	:Huh, I never would have guessed. I bet that originally was a typo, and then those crazy archaeologists liked it and kept using it - like the word "Filk". --[[User:Dfaran L'Eniarc\|Dfaran L'Eniarc]] 00:45, 19 Jun 2005 (EDT)		:Huh, I never would have guessed. I bet that originally was a typo, and then those crazy archaeologists liked it and kept using it - like the word "Filk". --[[User:Dfaran L'Eniarc\|Dfaran L'Eniarc]] 00:45, 19 Jun 2005 (EDT)
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		+	::In fact it's the other way around: "sherd" is the older form, though less popular today; it's related to "shear". See [http://www.bartleby.com/61/roots/IE467.html] for full details. English underwent a partial sound-change that changed "er" to "ar" in the 17th century; this affected the name of the letter R and the words "varsity" (from "university"), "parson" (which used to be just a different meaning of "person"), "sergeant" (which kept its spelling with "er"), and "shard" among others. However, in the great majority of words with "er" the sound-change reversed itself; we no longer say or write "marcy" for "mercy", for example. --[[User:Jcowan\|John Cowan]] 14:13, 20 Jun 2005 (EDT)

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	Nope - he meant "potsherds". See http://www.answers.com/potsherds. --[[User:Morbus Iff\|Morbus Iff]] 21:18, 18 Jun 2005 (EDT)		Nope - he meant "potsherds". See http://www.answers.com/potsherds. --[[User:Morbus Iff\|Morbus Iff]] 21:18, 18 Jun 2005 (EDT)
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		+	:Huh, I never would have guessed. I bet that originally was a typo, and then those crazy archaeologists liked it and kept using it - like the word "Filk". --[[User:Dfaran L'Eniarc\|Dfaran L'Eniarc]] 00:45, 19 Jun 2005 (EDT)