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I recall my mother writing a personal letter to sooth a family dispute. It was long. She wrote it on the computer, so she could edit it and arrange her words to
by TRiG_Ireland 3y ago
I recall my mother writing a personal letter to sooth a family dispute. It was long. She wrote it on the computer, so she could edit it and arrange her words to fit her meaning, printed it, and copied it out longhand for the personal touch.
- tines 3y ago> to sooth a family dispute I think you want the word "soothe" which means to calm. "Sooth" means "truth" as in "sooth-sayer."
- dbtc 3y agosoothe from Old English soðian ... from soð "true" (see sooth). The sense of "quiet, comfort, restore to tranquility," in reference to a person or animal, is by 1690s, via the notion of "to assuage one by asserting that what he says is true," https://www.etymonline.com/word/soothe https://www.etymonline.com/word/soothe
- tines 3y agoSure, but we're speaking English, not Old English. In English, the (archaic) word sooth is a noun, and soothe is a verb.
- TRiG_Ireland 3y agoEtymology is often fascinating.