Brer Ardith Hinton wrote to Brer mark lewis about Ha-ha again(2):


 AH>           It doesn't seem to matter nowadays whether or not one puts
 AH> a word in quotation marks.  By way of comparison I looked up King
 AH> Canute of England... a person of interest to me because this name is
 AH> also spelled "Cnut", or (in Thor Heyerdahl's KON-TIKI) "Knut".  Even
 AH> if I use quotation marks, my search engine reckons King Canute is the
 AH> same individual as King Cnut.  On one hand I'm glad to see history &
 AH> English demystified.  On the other hand I find myself feeling
 AH> frustrated in many cases by the increasing dummification of the
 AH> language.

If you had used the site that contains not only a dictionary, but a
Thesaurus, Encyclopedia and a Wiki encyclo0pedia, you would have found
the following from the Encyclopedia section:


King Knut -Search-

Noun    1.  Canute the Great - king of Denmark and Norway who forced
Edmund II to divide England with him; on the death of Edmund II, Canute
became king of all England (994-1035)

Canute, Cnut, Knut

Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. c 2003-2012 Princeton
University, Farlex Inc.

www.thefreedictionary.com/king+knut




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