Date: 07 Apr 2000 19:10:50 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSDCon East Message-ID: <xzpitxtq1k5.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Rahul Siddharthan's message of "Fri, 7 Apr 2000 20:29:17 %2B0530" References: <20000404152346.01398@techunix.technion.ac.il> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004042145500.88181-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> <8cgj1a$313f$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <v04220805b511f7c7e2a6@[195.238.1.121]> <8cj1cg$1gse$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <xzpya6qp2rq.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20000407202917.A1417@sys3.physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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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 -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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