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The Sources of Standard English.


Damp Marl Slobber
Drone (the verb) Mumble Slender
Duck Mop Slight
Fester Moss Sluttish
Flap Moult Snort
Flecked Mud Spout
Flitter Notch Stale
Flush Pamper Stem (sistere)
Freight Patch Stew (vivarium)
Gossamer Peer Struggle
Grasp Plot Tallow
Grunt Poke Tawny
Gulp Polecat Tattered
Handsome Pond Tickle
Hinge Puddle Tinkle
Howl Rabble Tittle
Humble-bee Rack Totter
Hurry Rash Tramp
Hush Rat Trample
Husk Rumble Troll
Hut Rush Tub
Jog Satchel Twitter
Lane Scoop Waist
Lash Scum Wattle
Lisp Shock (quatere) Waver
Loadstar Shock (acervus) Whirl
Loiter Shore (fulcire) Wimble
Loll Seer Wrap
Lull Sidelong

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Scandinavian Words, first found in England in the Fourteenth Century.

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Blab Bustle Clumsy
Bole (truncus) Calf (sura) Dairy
Bow (cortina proræ) Crash Dapple
Boot Cucking-stool Dowdy
Bracken Cuff (manica) Down (pluma)
Brag Chime Dump