Wednesday 21 October 2015

Craul

Craul: verb. An alternate spelling for the word 'crawl', used particularly on the Shetland islands and in Namibia. It is thought by etymologists that this wasn't simply a natural change from Old and Middle English, but instead it was a conscious change by the Shetlanders and Namibians to differentiate them in at least some aspect from everyone else.

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