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throwaway4533
4y ago
> "He cut the throat of the goat with a knife, which is the most kind way to do it," Not everyone with a homestead does that though. I know it's the traditional Jewish and Islamic way of doing things but it's cruel to
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throwaway4533
4y ago
As with many other archaic words in English, I'm guessing that "Swind" and "Swynde" came from Scandinavia and Germany where they've kept their old meaning to this day: https://en.wiktionary.org/