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Add. MS b/74/14/18
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Letter from W. W. Skeat to W. Aldis Wright
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- late 19th or early 20th c. (Creation)
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(Place of writing not indicated.)—Discusses the sense of the word ‘and’ in the phrase ‘and a little tiny boy’ (in Twelfth Night).
(It is unclear whether this letter is complete. There is no initial greeting, date, or address.)
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Appendix to Etym Dicty.
Song at end {1}. I suppose this is rather a miserable affair, & not necessarily grammatical. And a little tiny boy seems = even a little &c. If it is a mere expletive, we may still ask—how did it arise? And perhaps and = even is as good a guess as another. Or else we may consider it as short for and it were = an it were.
Yours sincerely
W. W. Skeat.
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{1} See Twelfth Night, V. i. 398.
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This description was created by A. C. Green in 2022.