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- From: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Sarfatti Forteana
- Message-ID: <103669@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 20:39:47 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.223943.3346@trl.oz.au>
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- Reply-To: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
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- In-reply-to: jbm@hal.trl.OZ.AU (Jacques Guy)
-
- In article <1992Dec30.223943.3346@trl.oz.au>, jbm@hal (Jacques Guy) writes:
- >If that is indeed the true etymology of "Tsarfat", it would be the only
- >case I know of (and I'm into comparative linguistics) where a word has
- >been borrowed backwards.
-
- Oh come on. Within physics (ha! hahaha! physics in sci.physics!) there
- is a very famous example. Ohm (German) became mho (English and ??), the
- pre-SI unit of conductance.
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- -Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
-