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While in Northumberland I did serve my time on a coble, a traditional fishing boat working out of that tiny harbor not far from the Scottish border, and it was during those years at sea that I learned some of the more subtle intricacies of Northumbrian, in particular that most flexible of all words-- Aye .
The Law impressed a special meaning on many Anglo-Saxon words-- manslaughter, sheriff, theft, hearsay, bench (judge's), strike (motion to), landlord, freehold (in land), and herein --which they retain to this day.
Then again, the statistics for a few thousand of the most frequent words-- the, a, an, but, for, of, etc.--need not be derived again and again, and a few thousand such lemmata are usually eliminated at the outset.
Among the first group are many children's words-- Georgy-Porgy, Henny-Penny, Turkey-Lurkey, kitchy-kitchy, lippity-lippity, piggly-wiggly . Among the second are fuddy-duddy, funny-money, hoity-toity, hokey-pokey, namby-pamby, shilly-shally, silly-billy, ticky-tacky, wishy-washy , and the double cited above, willy-nilly . The power gained through rhyme and rhythm seems to be directed by the diminutive suffix toward favorable or unfavorable meanings.
True, Duck Soup didn't resort to bunches of four-letter words--OK, cannonades of four-letter words--for shock value.