Re: CHAT: browsers

En réponse à John Cowan <cowan@...>:

>
> ObLang: this word "gallon", which is the basic unit in Imperial and
> U.S.
> Customary systems, is Norman French (did you ever hear galon/jalon
> there,
> Christophe?),
Not *galon, but *jalon exists in French, but with a very different meaning:
milestone ;)) .

And of course we do have gallon [ga"lO~] as a measurement unit, but I don't
know if it's a reborrowing from English or the actual word stayed in French.

 and probably of Celtic origin before that, or at least
> it
> has no obvious Latin etymology.
>
I don't know the etymology of either words...

Christophe.

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