The Bruce 25Book 11 · Nouns indicating time, space, quantity, weight, and number are
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The Bruce 25
Book 11 · Nouns indicating time, space, quantity, weight, and number are
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unchanged in the plural: fifty yheir (in I. 522 occurs ten yheris, quite an exceptional case), tuelf moneth, six and fourty wyntir (A.S. plural also winter), twa myle, tuenty thousand pund, etc. For paris in C (XIII. 463), E reads payr. In XII. 234 C has _thre gret avantage, where E gives avantagis, but reads vasselagis_ (!) to rhyme.
