when did "verses" become "verse"? Sean Farnham even said it*

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• Reading This Thread Has Given Me UCLA78 01:53:56 03/18/25 (0)
• guess I'm weird. It bugs me. Life goes on. * TheHappyBurgermeister 10:32:55 03/17/25 (3)
  • Bugs me too donutello 12:00:14 03/17/25 (2)
    • Modernization starts out as illiteracy sometimes blindness 15:22:12 03/17/25 (0)
    • I guess you're weird, too* TheHappyBurgermeister 12:20:13 03/17/25 (0)
• When lawyers started abbreviating it with one "v" & no period. mh 09:29:16 03/17/25 (4)
  • and I think they read that v as v, just the letter blindness 15:18:48 03/17/25 (0)
  • It’s still versus. WestwoodSoul 10:25:12 03/17/25 (2)
    • Grammatical logic will only further muddy these murky waters *nm ej 11:55:34 03/17/25 (0)
    • Re: It’s still versus. PDBruin 11:01:02 03/17/25 (0)
• In retrospect, two 's's in a syllable with a reduced vowel in blindness 07:44:08 03/17/25 (12)
  • The brilliance of English is its adaptability and flexibility... Born2BBruin 11:38:02 03/17/25 (3)
    • Re: The brilliance of English is its adaptability and flexibility... UCLA78 01:50:57 03/18/25 (0)
    • The cobbled English language ej 12:02:59 03/17/25 (1)
      • WTHARTA? * wanabbruin 18:19:51 03/17/25 (0)
  • I'm not sure I understand what you're saying *nm ej 08:16:08 03/17/25 (7)
    • cliff notes version barrya 08:52:17 03/17/25 (6)
      • Examples? *nm ej 09:16:40 03/17/25 (4)
        • Google vowel syncope donutello 10:50:56 03/17/25 (3)
          • That's another set of examples, yes* blindness 15:28:14 03/17/25 (0)
          • I could be wrong, but I don't think that's what he was ej 12:03:54 03/17/25 (1)
            • Sure, this is from Middle English where shift in stress patterns blindness 15:16:02 03/17/25 (0)
      • thank you* blindness 09:05:25 03/17/25 (0)
• Sean is all mod and ESPN, now, bro - everything is an barrya 21:01:40 03/16/25 (8)
  • When people abbreviate for the sake of brevity, trendiness, or ej 08:06:56 03/17/25 (6)
    • Re: When people abbreviate for the sake of brevity, trendiness, or barrya 08:59:16 03/17/25 (5)
      • Re: When people abbreviate for the sake of brevity, trendiness, or wanabbruin 14:11:31 03/17/25 (0)
      • What's the point of using abbreviations ej 10:16:34 03/17/25 (2)
        • I think most of the new abbreviations are a direct result of azbruin 10:26:38 03/17/25 (1)
          • It took me a moment to figure out CMC or MC or SA or ED, etc.. ej 11:36:34 03/17/25 (0)
      • Okay, you got me. How else do you pronounce "err"? * azbruin 09:38:47 03/17/25 (0)
  • Granddaughter tells me it's "bruh".* wanabbruin 03:31:25 03/17/25 (0)
• Probably when "versus" was killed. * JTL 20:33:51 03/16/25 (2)
  • Sean didn't attend JakeB 08:26:54 03/17/25 (1)
    • Re: Sean didn't attend barrya 09:00:08 03/17/25 (0)

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