Re: Regularized Inglish
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <grandsir@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 1, 1999, 6:06 |
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John Cowan wrote:
>
> Christophe Grandsire scripsit:
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> > Really? So the French "fleur de soufre" would come from a direct
> > translation of English? Because in French, "fleur" (flower) and "farine"
> > (flour) have never been related to one another. And if so, I don't know
> > where the French expression would come from...
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> Perhaps "fleur" once had the sense of "flour" as well as "flower";
> after all, the English word is a borrowing.
>
Maybe in some cases. I think we also say "fleur de sel" for a kind of
salt, but I'm not sure. Maybe it was used for some kinds of powders,
hence the meaning "flour" when it was borrowed in English.
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