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The Raider Mission"Preparing for productive citizenship, further education and employment"
What is a Raider? |
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longer
exist for our word road. The ai
in raid represents the standard development in the northern dialects of
Old English long a, while the oa in road represents the
standard development of Old English long a in the rest of the English
dialects. It was left to Sir Walter Scott to revive the Scots form raid
with the sense “a military expedition on horseback.” The Scots were not the
only ones conducting raids, however. We find these words in the Middle English Coventry
Leet Book: “aftur a Rode... made uppon the Scottes at thende of this last
somer.” While road is not used in this way any more in English, a
trace of this usage is still detectable in the compound inroad, literally
“a riding or advance on or in.”
Our Raider
Alma Mater
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d.
Old English r