The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #114361   Message #2525456
Posted By: kendall
27-Dec-08 - 09:12 AM
Thread Name: BS: When did 'forbid' become 'forfend'?
Subject: RE: BS: When did 'forbid' become 'forfend'?
The first time I ever heard that expression was Joan Sprung in the mid 70s.

I have always been a fan of Bill Shakespere, and at one point in my checkered youth I was going to write a biography of him, but, as he once said, "And enterprises of great pith and moment become sicklyed over with the pale cast of thought, and lose the name of action."