Re: Dweomer,etc.

Kaos wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:19:18 -0500, Larry Swain
> <theswain@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Dan Clore wrote:
>>> Jamie Andrews; real address @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 bottom of message wrote:
>>>> In rec.arts.books.tolkien Dan Clore <clore@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
>>>
>>>>> (Gygax would have encountered but probably not remembered Tolkien's 
>>>>> use...)
>>>>
>>>>      Well... there's a possibility that Gygax might have been a
>>>> wee bit disingenuous about what he did and didn't remember from
>>>> Tolkien's oeuvre...
>>>
>>> True enough (though he seemed open enough about what he had borrowed,
to 
>>> me anyway), but Tolkien wouldn't (that I remember) lead him to the
form 
>>> "dweomer", or account for his fondness for this family of words. I
don't 
>>> know of another that source that would, on the other hand.
>>>
>> Tolkien would lead him to the OED though and the OED has that form--QED
> 
> Lord, how the standards have dropped if plausible supposition counts
> as QED now.

Note that the OED is not the only possible source of the information. 
For another example:

http://tinyurl.com/2g7u6d

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