Comments on: The Price of Praise and Prizes, or Prizing up an Etymological Bottle http://blog.oup.com/2010/08/price-praise-prize/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Fri, 24 May 2013 00:55:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: mollymooly http://blog.oup.com/2010/08/price-praise-prize/#comment-170729 mollymooly Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:03:44 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=10624#comment-170729 'Old French prise also meant “to grasp”; hence prize “lever up.”' This sense is still spelt prise in British English. I'm not sure whether that makes things more or less confused. ‘Old French prise also meant “to grasp”; hence prize “lever up.”’

This sense is still spelt prise in British English. I’m not sure whether that makes things more or less confused.

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