Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 17:07:00 +0200 From: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org> To: Paul Robinson <paul@iconoplex.co.uk>,<sereciya@kurdistan.ath.cx>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD logo... Message-ID: <20030416150700.GA25165@gvr.gvr.org> In-Reply-To: <20030416121500.GA44969@fin-lebret.beauvais.fr> References: <3E9C6992.90403@potentialtech.com> <XFMail.030415142305.nicole@unixgirl.com> <20030415235701.GA16666@kurdistan.ath.cx> <20030416114615.J41924@iconoplex.co.uk> <20030416115556.GA23101@gvr.gvr.org> <20030416121500.GA44969@fin-lebret.beauvais.fr>
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On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 02:15:00PM +0200, Arnaud Lebret wrote: > Maybe you can find the same kind of thing in American|British English if > you think of the difference between 'lamb' and 'mutton', for example. Do > you know which language this difference is coming from ? Mutton is problably imported from french (Mouton). Lamb is the same as we use in dutch, so it might be that the origin is germanic...but I'm not sure. -Guido
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