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To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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Subject: Re: BSDCon East
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From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Date: 07 Apr 2000 19:10:50 +0200
In-Reply-To: Rahul Siddharthan's message of "Fri, 7 Apr 2000 20:29:17 +0530"
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Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> writes:
> Thus spake Dag-Erling Smorgrav on Apr  7, 2000 AD:
> > It's only a problem if they didn't pay attention in class. Bar a few
> > exceptions, there are good ethymological reasons for most spellings,
> that's "etymological".

Thanks.

It's funny to note that while the modern spelling (and the original
Greek spelling) is without an h, the middle english spelling was
*with* an h...

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no


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