16 December 2009 2 Comments

Bibliophile: Down with Jane Austin

Normally I reserve my Bibliophile posts for book reviews. However, today’s Forgotten English Desk Calendar had the following as it’s daily entry:

do-withall
I cannot do-withall, I cannot help it. This phrase is not uncommon in early writers.
~ James Halliwell’s
A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth [...]