Stahlke, Herbert F.W. wrote:

>Afraid was a part of upper class, Norman speech and scare a part of Anglo-Saxon commoner language.  We have a lot of other pairs that show the same sort of history.
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>Herb
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Interesting, and even after a thousand years "scared" is still *common* 
while the Norman, "afraid", is respectable, just like it is in Ivanhoe.

Omar

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