Wordie: Butle: Comments

Comment by seanahan, 4 months ago

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:11:38 +0000

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Comment by sionnach, 4 months ago

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:24:28 +0000

I think the commonly accepted back-formation from butler is buttle. For two reasons:

buttle is listed in several of the dictionaries included at the OneLook site; butle is not listed.

By analogy with suttle and sutler.

Comment by johnmperry, 4 months ago

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:33:27 +0000

v. what butlers do. Probably a back-formation.