wether

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Doesn't anyone know that a wether is a castrated sheep?

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  • In comparisson, when people were asked wether or not they had heard of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, 40\% had answered positively. —  Fragland :: Everything
  • SHE can make her own decisions wether or not to becum a vampire. and if jacob was smart enuff and REALLY wanted her to be around he would break the treaty WITHOUT a "war"!! —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • I keep having this back and forth debate with myself wether is a good or bad thing. —  Planet RMFO Blog
  • You have no clue wether or not that WILL happen in the future. —  FlickFilosopher.com
  • There seems to be a question wether or not Mr. Blackburn actually said he was going to sue. —  The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
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  1. Middle English, from Old English; see wet-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. English dial, also wedder; from Middle English wether, wethir, wedyr, from Anglo-Saxon wither, a wether, a castrated ram. = Old Saxon withar, wither = D; wedder, weder = Old High German widar, Middle High German wider, German widder = Icelandic vethr = Swedish vädur = Danish væder, vædder, a ram, = Goth, withrus, a lamb; akin to L. vitulus, a calf, Sanskrit vatsa, calf, young, literally ‘a yearling,’ connected with Sanskrit vatsara and Greek ἔτος, a year, Latin vetus, aged, old: see veal and veteran.
 

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