Talk:overfret

Hypothetical reflexes from Middle English presented as fact?

Can anyone actually confirm whether "overfrate" and "overfretten" have ever been used in Modern English? Quickly googling them doesn't yield *anything* at all, even the one English hit hit of "overfrate" that I thought might have been from the 18th century was just an OCR error of overſtate. This seems like the overzealous extension of extremely archaic language that, at the very least, is not current English and definitely not "usually in compounds". Kristian-Clausal (talk) 06:40, 4 February 2022 (UTC)