_aventure_; _aver_, a beast of burden, horse, used by Burns, from the A.F.

_aveir_, property, cattle; _averous_, A.F._averous_, avaricious, in Wyclif's translation of 1 Cor.

vi 10.
Here is ample proof of the survival of Anglo-French in our dialects.
Indeed, their chief philological use consists in the great antiquity of many of the terms, which often preserve Old English and Anglo-French forms with much fidelity.

The charge often brought against dialect speakers of using "corrupt" forms is only occasionally and exceptionally true.

Much worse "corruptions" have been made by antiquaries, in order to suit their false etymologies..