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'apertaining'

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My Saltley-born Grandfather was fond of using the word 'apertaining'...you know-....'that's apertaining to....'. I hardly ever heard the word used in that way by anyone/anywhere else..
 
I don't think it was particularly Brummagem. "Appertain" - with two "p"s - is a good English word meaning "belong to", coming into the language from Latin and Old French/Norman. You don't seem to hear it so much these days - perhaps its use was a generational thing.

Chris
 
chris M thanks now I Know just shows we use words and we dont know what we are relating to always thought it was in connection with?
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TOM
 
I think it can mean all those things, Tom. After all, they are all the same thing, really, aren't they? - belong to (as a possession or as a right), be associated with, be connected to, relate to, be appropriate to....

I wonder if there is any difference between it and "pertain". Any English scholars about?

What a rich language we are lucky enough to have! So many different ways to say anything.

Chris
 
yes, 'pertaining to' and 'appertaining to' are virtually indistinguishable aren't they?
 
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