Betwixt and Between – Weekly Practices

Wendy Robertson Fyfe

I have heard it said in a variety of places that the etymology of betwixt, came from old English betweox formed by combining “bi” and “tweox” (for two) and between came from old English betweonum, meaning in the space which separates. It can be used to describe ‘neither one thing or the other’, ‘neither here nor there’, undecided, between, among, amids…