I sort of like the fact that it's conflated as 'gauntlet', because it makes the task of piecing together the history of the phrase so much more pleasurable :)
And I'm increasingly thinking that it doesn't matter how much you wonder whether we *should* try to maintain things like the difference between the two spellings, because the world will do what it likes with it anyway. Goodness, I'm not sure this is me speaking! It's Cypro-Minoan, it's making me mellow :)
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Date: 2009-03-29 02:42 pm (UTC)And I'm increasingly thinking that it doesn't matter how much you wonder whether we *should* try to maintain things like the difference between the two spellings, because the world will do what it likes with it anyway. Goodness, I'm not sure this is me speaking! It's Cypro-Minoan, it's making me mellow :)