Fred's Fun Fact: Betwixt

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The fread show is on Fred's Fun.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Fact, Fred's Fun right now, so much, guy, didn't you
know that?

Speaker 1 (00:16):
While most of us would interpret the word unfriend as
a verb meant to indicate that someone has served severed,
rather an Internet relationship, the word itself was first used
in the twelve hundreds in the twelve hundreds to describe
someone who is no longer a friend. By the seventeenth century, however,
unfriend had become a verb that meant essentially the same
thing as it does today, minus the Internet. In sixteen

(00:37):
fifty nine, Thomas Fuller wrote, I hope, sir, that we
are not mutually unfriended by this difference with half happened
betwixt us? You know betwixt is betwixt isn't used nearly enough.
That's the word that needs some shine. I could go
for a lot more betwixt Caitlin. We should share, We

(00:59):
should share popular sandwich betwixt us today. Okay are you buying? Yeah? Okay, good,
I'm good working at more pread show next