1 Jan
2014
1 Jan
'14
4:06 p.m.
I wonder if nadders ate napples. --Dan On 2014-01-01, at 2:57 PM, Adam P. Goucher wrote:
Referring to the snake, `an adder' was originally `a nadder' (derived from the Old English word `naedra', meaning `serpent'), but the `n' jumped from the noun to the indefinite article. The time that this happened is an upper bound on the age of the pun.