***THE OPPOSITE OF ECUMENE?***

[monstevr]

Ecumene: http://monstevr.livejournal.com/592831.html

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eldritch#Etymology
Middle English from earlier elrich, equiv. to OE el- (“foreign, strange, uncanny”) (see else ) + rīċe "realm

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[additional_jojo]

While English was fucking crazy in 1790, Robert Burns is writing in perhaps the most phonetically accurate Scotch-Dialect English I've ever seen.

Also, please remind me to tell you an awesome story about a Revolutionary era abolitionist and his opinions of slave grammar. It's awesome.