Thanks much, I was hoping you'd chime in...
Jim
L. Manning Vines wrote:
> Jim writes:
> << [. . .] willy-nilly (funny, Byron uses the phrase, "Will I Nill I"
> -- wonder where that came from? Latin?) [. . . .] >>
>
> Latin seems improbable. I believe that both "will" and "nill" as
> verbs were present in Old English, and are presumably anciently
> Germanic, straight from Indo-European. No fancy hops through France
> are necessary.
>
> -Robbie
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