http://www.word-detective.com/2011/10/nothing-to-sneeze-at/ Semper Ubi Sub Ubi Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:32:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.word-detective.com/2011/10/nothing-to-sneeze-at/comment-page-1/#comment-46603 Sam Thu, 13 Dec 2012 08:38:09 +0000 http://www.word-detective.com/?p=5685#comment-46603 Pretty sure it's "sneosan", not "fneosan" and you're being tricked by the letterforms. The upper-case Anglo-Saxon "S" looks sort of like an "f" and the lowercase "s" is the same as our modern letter. Pretty sure it’s “sneosan”, not “fneosan” and you’re being tricked by the letterforms. The upper-case Anglo-Saxon “S” looks sort of like an “f” and the lowercase “s” is the same as our modern letter.

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