darth vader...

hahaha... found this out during english lecture... on historical variance in english... well i was going to blog about this two weeks ago... but i couldn't get the oxford english dictionary link to work so i couldn't find out what darth meant... anyhow... i'm blogging about it now... so there's no big difference...
vader as we all learnt was a term that people long ago called their fathers... the letter "f" was not used at that time... not by some people anyways... so they replaced it with a similar sounding letter... "v"... these are called allophones... well today i finally got the oxford english dictionary to work... actually i went to look for it... the link on the module website doesn't work... i don't know if prof peter tan will find this... but what the hey... and i found out what darth meant... it's a variance of the word dreath... darth is the 16th century word for it... it means splendor... so darth vader meant splendor father... maybe it should be father of splendor... wonder if george lucus will find this... i wonder if he actually knows about this... well... i don't think so...