>And my 40 yr old Webster says "twit" is actually more than 1000 years old:
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>From Middle English (1100 AD to 1500 AD) atwiten "to taunt" and before that from the Anglo Saxon (pre 1000 AD) aetwitan "to accuse"
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>>Hi Jim,
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>>Yeah, Cindy already yanked out Webster on me. Duh. Never dawned on me to look there. For some obscure reason I thought the word was contrived.