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Saturday, February 13, 2010

Grice for a Prince

Prince Chaz will be heard to say, 'hice' as plural of 'house', and 'grouse' as plural of 'grice'


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Thus the OED:


grice. App. Cotgrave's assimilation of "grouse" to the Fr. grieche

(:-L. type graecisca, fem. of graeciscus. See Greekish.

As in poule, perdrix grieche; erron. taken by some etymologists to be the original of
grouse.


1611 Cotgr.

Poule griesche, a moor henn; the Hen of the Grice, or Moore Game.


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