> Why did they call it "else?" They don't say. > What they do say is that this document was originally written in German and hastily translated into English. I

> Why did they call it "else?" They don't say. > What they do say is that this document was originally written in German and hastily translated into English. I think a carefully-chosen German word was probably translated as an archaic English word and then never revisited. Of course that's a bit of a guessing game, but I think "sonst" could be a good candidate. It means the same as otherwise, is short (short form of "ansonsten") and I can see a hasty translation turning it into else. An "or else" might have made more sense, however that's two separate words.