dhbailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Well, historically the word "girl" used to be "gril" in old-English, > but over years usage changed to the easier to say modern order of the > letters.

Are you sure it was that way round? Neither Chambers nor the full Oxford English Dictionary gave such a derivation, nor was it one of about nine variant spellings in the Oxford.

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Ken Moore

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