Re: Greetings all - and a question on word division
- From: "Nick Wagg" <naw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:01:38 -0000
"John Briggs" <john.briggs4@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Nick Wagg wrote:
"Giles Todd" <g@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I offer 'atone' versus 'at one'...
That's more or less what it was originally, being a back formation
from 'atonement', which was a specially coined biblical phrase meaning
being at one with Christ.
Not really - the verb is Middle English.
I have obviously fallen prey to an apocryphal story.
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