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On 8/13/2024 1:09 AM, Don wrote:
> David Duffy wrote:
>> Christian Weisgerber wrote:
>>> Michael F. Stemper wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm reading Fletcher Pratt's _The Well of the Unicorn_, and have
>>>> stumbled over "deserion", "deese", and "tercia". From context, I
>>>> think that all of them are military terms. Maybe
>>>
>>> tercio  or  tercia : a Spanish or Italian infantry regiment of the
>>> 16th and 17th century
>>
>> Yes, 300 men strong. And a deese is most likely a platoon of, I guess,
>> 10 (dix) led by a serjeant (the deserion, which I would gloss as "of
>> service", as in sergeant), who owes feudal loyalty to a Count. In the case
>> of Luronne, he is "a very good reasoner...[who] has had the instruction
>> of the Lyceum of Anne", and Morarday is "captain and deserion to the
>> Viscount..a Vulking of the war service".
> 
> The enigma excursively expands. Entertain, if you will, a six sample
> survey stating "deese" is not a Scrabble word:
> 
> <https://www.thewordfinder.com/define/deese>
> 
> Yet, "deese" is found in the _Sailor's Word-Book_ (1867):
> 
>      DEESE. An east-country term for a place where herrings are dried.
> 
> <https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=deese>
> 
> Danke,


Without the extra "e" "dese" are things closer than "dose."


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Kevin R



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