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Without context, I doubt many native English speakers would know the meaning of "almonry". From [1], they seem obsolete well before any colonization, so it's p
by Symbiote 4y ago
Without context, I doubt many native English speakers would know the meaning of "almonry".
From [1], they seem obsolete well before any colonization, so it's probably only British people with an interest in church history.
"Alms" is already fairly obscure, [2] puts it at word frequency 44625. Almonry is not in the top 333,333 words.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almonry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almonry
[2] http://norvig.com/ngrams/ http://norvig.com/ngrams/