The grammar that the early grammarians knew was Latin grammar, and when they decided to grammarize English, they simply transposed the Latin structure and the Latin terminology and called it English grammar.

We can divvy up the last piece of cake and each have a little dessert.

… still found his favorite reserved barstool awaiting him, still feasted his rheumy eyes on the flirtsome gavotteners atrot, and still affirmed to any and all who would lend an ear, “Yessir, assuming you can get through the rough spots, life can turn out mighty sweet!”

Some people derive Berwick from the Cymro-Teutonic compound Aber-wick. This sounds most reasonable, Aber signifying the mouth of a river, while some of the Saxons whom Ida gathered into one kingdom certainly then or later had a wick or town here. The Celts would naturally have emphasized the penultimate and made it Aberwick …