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Posted By: Allan Conn
25-Feb-20 - 11:26 AM
Thread Name: Origins: The Flowers of the Forest (Jane Elliot)
Subject: RE: Origins: The Flowers of the Forest (Jane Elliot)

I think you are right Jack and as well in Scots usage it was English usage too. COD has for the spelling "dole" grief, woe, lamentation - Middle English via Old French.