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- From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
- Subject: Re: Mixing Greek/Latin in product naming (was: Re: <None>)
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- Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
- References: <DOCONNOR.92Oct21114702@potato.sedona.intel.com> <1cok6sINN25m@iraul1.ira.uka.de> <1992Nov9.184247.2626@lsl.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 15:42:51 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov9.184247.2626@lsl.co.uk> snail@lsl.co.uk writes:
- > In England, I think we'd call it a motor car. Which two languages is that
- > descended from? :-)
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- Two? Wimps! Just about any word in English is derived from Latin, Celtic,
- Saxon, Jute, Frankish, Angle, Armorican, Pictish, Iberian, Greek, Hebrew, ...
-
- According to legend, Ford did originally want to call his version of the
- car the Ipsimobile and was dissuaded by an investor...
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