wolve?

Discussion in 'Free Thoughts' started by gurglingmonkey, Jul 17, 2007.

  1. gurglingmonkey More Amazing in RL Registered Senior Member

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    Has anyone heard someone pronounce the word 'wolf' in the singular as wolve?
    Just wondering.
     
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  3. Nickelodeon Banned Banned

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    No. Never. Not once. Ever.
     
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  5. Fugu-dono Scholar Of Shen Zhou Registered Senior Member

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    No no no
     
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  7. one_raven God is a Chinese Whisper Valued Senior Member

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  8. Oniw17 ascetic, sage, diogenes, bum? Valued Senior Member

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    Holy shit, that's random.
     
  9. River Ape Valued Senior Member

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    I think "wolve" is the verb

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    (Compare half, halves, halve.)
     
  10. Pandaemoni Valued Senior Member

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    I have seen wulv online, as a sort of hybrid between the Scandinavian "ulv" (meaning "wolf") and the English word.

    The word "wolf"—in that spelling or as "wulf"—has been round since the day of Old English, with the "f" intact, otherwise. The v in wolves comes from the fact that the f in the Old English plural (wulfas, and later wolfes) was "voiced" as opposed to the unvoiced f in Modern and Old English word wolf. Because of the voicing, the substitution of a v for the f was a common change (and happened with the Old English-derived words "half" and "calf" as well) when spellings standardized.
     
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  11. DanceAndExplode Fear me, for I am Death. Registered Senior Member

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    yes. and they are frikkin idiots.

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