Kevin Stroud Talks the History of English
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The Old English Oaths, You Know, Have That Alliteration in There
In Old English, oaths were often worded in a way that they kind of had that same type of alliteration. If the person swearing the oath messed up, if they stuttered or stambered or made a mistake, then the oath was deemed to be invalid. This became another feature of English, of legal English.
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