Re: Which is simpler: /y/ or /iw/?
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 4, 2008, 15:21 |
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On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 10:55 AM, caeruleancentaur
<caeruleancentaur@...> wrote:
> Perhaps it's because 'simplify' was brought into English from the
> French 'simplifier' (according to the AHD). The other words came to us
> directly from the Latin participles.
Ah, so it took a side trip. Well, that explains the existence of a
discrepancy, even if we haven't yet established how the details worked
out over in Gaul...
Thanks!
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
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