Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 11:43:43 +0000 (UTC) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c Message-ID: <acdbtf$1c63$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <200205162121.g4GLLGQ43405@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020520195703.A79046@dragon.nuxi.com> <p05111702b90fb30b64bb@[10.9.8.215]> <20020521152955.A26759@regency.nsu.ru>
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Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@regency.nsu.ru> wrote: > > > (Of course, ``email'' has been a familiar > > > word in France, Germany, and the Netherlands much longer than in England > > > --- but for an entirely different reason.) > > Pardon my unawareness, but what is this "entirely different reason" of > France, Germany, and the Netherlands that's been mentioned? In the respective languages, "émail", "Email(le)", "email" means enamel. German and Dutch have borrowed the word from French. FWIW, English "enamel" also derives from Old French "esmail". -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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