Quote Originally Posted by mayberry View Post
If you still need confirmation that "prest" is the archaic spelling of "prêt", meaning "ready", and that the circumflex is the sign of the missing "s", look at these two articles:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_...flex_in_French

http://fr.01reference.com/definition/PRET

The first explains in great detail the process whereby the change occurred in the spelling. The second article, on the etymology of "prêt", is in French, but if you scroll down to the section labelled "historique" you'll see the citations of "prest" from before the spelling change.

Incidentally, it has the same Latin root as the Italian "presto"

Cheers,
John
Thanks for your time and post, John. Well, I have to say I, myself, am convinced as to reasons for why the motto is spelled as it is. One can never tell when it comes to how and why clients think as they do sometimes.

The argument was presented to me so adamantly I was under the impression there may have been another possibility I had not known about as I have dealt with 100s of clans. Keep learning the nuances of each as we go, guess that what makes it fun as opposed to doing basic embroidery work for folks.