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' There is, however, an alternative derivation, since, in Middle English, earlier than the first record of primrose , the plant was known as primerole or saynt peterworte.
These etymologies rise out of the gray area of word derivation that employs educated guessing and cultivated Sprachgefühl.
However, the American Heritage Dictionary includes in the derivation of muzzle the “Gallo-Roman musellum (unattested).”
Among the more incredible explanations (as recorded by Adrian Room, A Dictionary of True Etymologies) are a derivation from ablution or luliana [ Daily Telegraph , 13 September 1968] and even from hallelujah, as prompted by a caption to a cartoon by Du Maurier in Punch [22 June 1895], which read Now we'll begin again at the Hallelujah, and please linger longer on the lu!
We also recognize, in this derivation, that to achieve this result we must assume that the i thcoordinates for the symbol representations are equally likely ( p = 1/2).