| It's actually from Old English -- from scIr shire + gerEfa reeve. A reeve was an administrative official to an Anglo-Saxon king. It has nothing to do with Ancient French or its word for "law", which would have been somewhere between Latin lex legis and the Modern French loi.
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\"What are you talking about? One, two, three, fo-- oh, crap.\"
- G. Edwin Bergstrom, Arlington VA, 15 Jan 1943
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