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Did you pick 'wise one' yourself as a name? Methinks yes.

Posted by Lotg on February 09, 2004

In Reply to: Thanks Henry posted by The Wise One on February 08, 2004

: : : : Yes I did find this in the PF browser and some other places too. And I know that 'het' is derived from hot, and it means not to get all worked up or heated up, etc. etc.

: : : : What I'd like to know though, that I couldn't find, is where it originated. It sounds like something that would have come from America. But am I wrong, is it older than that, or from some other beginnings?

: : : It's an old form of heated. Mrs Thatcher once accused an opponent of being 'frit' which is a Lincolnshire dialect term for frightened.
: : : From Bartleby; Regional Patterns of American Speech, The American Frontier; Scots forms also appearing in the poetry of Robert Burns include het (heated). Many of these forms go back to Middle English, and all survive in current American Midland and Southern dialects.

: : Frit - what a great word, I gotta use that somewhere.

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: I'm sure you will

Do you just get out of bed on the wrong side every morning, are you perpetually miserable, or are you just a naturally, unnecessarily sarcastic person? Or am I just so special that you just need to pick on me? I've no doubt you'll come up with some predictable reply, or perhaps choose the more clever option.

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